Bring up ePADD for redacting mail archives, report on results

[hjellinek]

We have email archives that might include personal email and personal information among the technical
content. @ekaltman suggested that Stanford's ePADD software might help us with redaction and extraction.

I will see what's involved in installing and running it and report to the group.

[nbriggs]

I'd say chances are not good that it will successfully ingest Lafite format mail files (and TEdit/NS document attachments). ;-)

[Anzus]

I took a look at some of my old Lafite mail files and it looks like it’s just a flat text file with each message starting with *start* And another like with 2 five-digit numbers and another string followed by the From line. Like so: *start* 01101 00024 UU? From ***@***.*** Tue Apr 13 07:29:31 1993 *start* 02096 00024 US From ***@***.*** Thu Nov 19 02:12:14 1992 It might be possible to pre-process to strip this out before running it through the cleanup?

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[hjellinek]

Thank you both for your comments. I opened this ticket mainly as a reminder to myself to start looking into this.

It's not clear yet if this tool does what we need even on mail files in common formats, and I'm not sure which archives we'd point it at (though you might use your imaginations and come up with some possibilities).

The first step is simply to see what it's like to set it up and run it. If the authors provides sample mail archives to run it against, as I hope they have, I'll do that too.