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Unix Email

Create a directed graph, allowing multiple edges and self loops, from a unix mailbox. The nodes are email addresses with links that point from the sender to the receivers. The edge data is a Python email.Message object which contains all of the email message data.

This example shows the power of DiGraph to hold edge data of arbitrary Python objects (in this case a list of email messages).

The sample unix email mailbox called “unix_email.mbox” may be found here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/networkx/networkx/master/examples/drawing/unix_email.mbox

Out:

From: ted@com To: carol@gov Subject: get together for lunch to discuss Networks?
From: ted@com To: alice@edu Subject: get together for lunch to discuss Networks?
From: ted@com To: bob@gov Subject: Graph package in Python?
From: ted@com To: bob@gov Subject: get together for lunch to discuss Networks?
From: alice@edu To: bob@gov Subject: NetworkX
From: bob@gov To: ted@com Subject: Re: Graph package in Python?
From: bob@gov To: alice@edu Subject: Re: NetworkX

# Author: Aric Hagberg (hagberg@lanl.gov)

#    Copyright (C) 2005-2018 by
#    Aric Hagberg <hagberg@lanl.gov>
#    Dan Schult <dschult@colgate.edu>
#    Pieter Swart <swart@lanl.gov>
#    All rights reserved.
#    BSD license.

import email
from email.utils import getaddresses, parseaddr
import mailbox
import sys

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import networkx as nx

# unix mailbox recipe
# see https://docs.python.org/2/library/mailbox.html


def mbox_graph():
    try:
        fh = open("unix_email.mbox", 'rb')
    except IOError:
        print("unix_email.mbox not found")
        raise

    mbox = mailbox.UnixMailbox(fh, email.message_from_file)  # parse unix mailbox

    G = nx.MultiDiGraph()  # create empty graph

    # parse each messages and build graph
    for msg in mbox:  # msg is python email.Message.Message object
        (source_name, source_addr) = parseaddr(msg['From'])  # sender
        # get all recipients
        # see https://docs.python.org/2/library/email.html
        tos = msg.get_all('to', [])
        ccs = msg.get_all('cc', [])
        resent_tos = msg.get_all('resent-to', [])
        resent_ccs = msg.get_all('resent-cc', [])
        all_recipients = getaddresses(tos + ccs + resent_tos + resent_ccs)
        # now add the edges for this mail message
        for (target_name, target_addr) in all_recipients:
            G.add_edge(source_addr, target_addr, message=msg)

    return G


if __name__ == '__main__':

    G = mbox_graph()

    # print edges with message subject
    for (u, v, d) in G.edges(data=True):
        print("From: %s To: %s Subject: %s" % (u, v, d['message']["Subject"]))

    pos = nx.spring_layout(G, iterations=10)
    nx.draw(G, pos, node_size=0, alpha=0.4, edge_color='r', font_size=16, with_labels=True)
    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.130 seconds)