On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 02:45 +0200, Ángel González wrote: > > So I'm having some trouble saving email message to disk. If I move > > them to the "On this Computer" folder they appear in the .local > > folder as text documents but otherwise I cannot access them on di > > as far as I can find. I'm trying to construct a process that saves > > the emails to disk automatically so I can run a program on them at > > intervals and save the data into a PostgreSQL database. Is there > > anyway to automatically move the emails from my email address to > > the > > computer or a simpler avenue to do what I want? > evolution isn't the best suited tool for that. > If you want to automatically download the contents of a mailbox for > automatically processing them, I would use a program like fetchmail > or > mpop (you should configure them to pipe into the script, instead of > using a pre-existing mailbox format like Maildir or mbox).
I think fetchmail is also the wrong tool for this job. I would recommend using the imaplib Python module to connect to the mail server and retrieve the message and process them into your database. This make synchronization straight forward and efficient - you can use the mailboxes UID as an anchor and easily process new messages, and just get the parts of the message from the server that you want. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
