[MlMt] statistics

[Sherif Soliman]

On 4 Aug 2016, at 22:40, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> I found View->Layout->Statistics
> I don’t see Command->Visualize
>
> The histograms are impressive but I mean simple global statistics like 
> what Eudora shows.
>

Visualize is a MailMate bundle that you have to install before you can 
use it. You can install it from Preferences ➝ Bundles. Find Visualize 
and check the box, and MailMate will install it for you.

I am the author of the bundle, so if you let me know what global 
statistics you were given by Eudora (I never used it), I could plan on 
including it in Visualize. No promises, especially on the "when", but I 
am motivated enough to add features to it, and I've already been 
considering adding a "summary statistics" command.

Another caveat is that, from the sounds of it, Eudora's statistics gave 
you numbers/plots about your entire inbox or entire message database. 
Due to the way bundles work in MailMate, Visualize won't have access to 
that. You will have to select messages before you can invoke Visualize 
commands.

I have tested Visualize with up to 100,000 messages, and while it takes 
a few seconds to generate the plots, it does work eventually. A lot of 
that could be the plotting library working, and it might be a lot faster 
if what you want are just text-based summaries.

Tip to all Visualize users: if you will be selecting 10s or 100 of 
thousands of messages, things run a lot faster if you choose a layout 
that doesn't show message preview or thread arcs. The selection itself 
happens faster because MailMate doesn't try to render message previews 
and thread arcs for a large number of messages.

Sherif