The only thing that Jeff Hobbs at Ldopa.net misses about Eudora is its report function, which provides you with statistics about your email — how much you got, how much you sent, who sent it and so on.

So he’s decided to develop an AppleScript application that will do the same thing for Mail.app. It’s still in development and a bit rough around the edges, as he admits.

Currently it offers only one report, an HTML document that it drops onto your Desktop and opens in TextEdit:

The report is a hyperlinked chart containing the people in your Address Book, the last message they sent you, and the last message you sent them. The chart is colour-coded, with different colours showing the length of time since you last corresponded with each person. Clicking the subject of the emails opens them, clicking the contacts starts a new email to that person.

He’s looking for feedback on how the app might be developed further.

So head over to his blog, download the app, give it a whirl and let him know what you think.

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Tags: Address Book, applescript, email, Eudora, mail.app, statistics

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