Hi Chris - I've just run EKR's code and Leo has downloaded an in box from Fastmail - I had to give Leo a Fastmail App password but that worked seamlessly. It is slow I have about 7 thousand emails in the inbox and it took many minutes to do download them.
The node header looks like this - *b'Subject: What could Brexit mean for your pension?* not sure why the "b' " is in there but it is in all of them. If I pick a spamish email as an example there's a lot of crap in the body of the message. in fact so much I won't paste it here. Tagging v Clones is a good question - I suppose now is a good time to ask - is there a mass tagger or a mass cloner function? Big up to EKR and Terry and of course to Leo. IH On Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:31:34 UTC, Chris George wrote: > > The FROM email address and the date stamp would be unique enough, wouldn't > it? > > See I don't need complete or fancy. All I need is the five bits of info. I > don't even care about the text/html split in the body that emails all tend > to sport these days. I just want the text. There is a boatload of meta > information in a mail header that I simply don't care about. > > mbox is like .rtf for example. Every single word processor since Wordstar > can import/export rtf flawlessly. If TNEF or whatever other extension is > important to you and whatever email client you use won't push that to mbox > then further work, perhaps a converter from pst, for example, would be > required. > > The email I intend to process comes from a wide variety of sources, as > email is known to do. By keeping what I want as a core subset of all email > and not worrying about everyone's special proprietary extensions I can be > guaranteed that an email will never lack for what I want from it, even if > that is an empty string. > > Once an email is in Leo as a node it can easily be sorted using whatever > scheme a person could come up with using clones, backlinks, python scripts > etc. I could see having a @mail node being a common feature of a wide > number of different files. Maybe not programming files but pretty much > every other information management task would likely benefit. > > Chris > > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:45 AM Josef <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 6:27:55 PM UTC+1, Chris George wrote: >>> >>> >>> The FROM: line becomes the uniques identifier for the node and forms the >>> headline. >>> >>> The FROM line is hardly unique: I get lots of mails from the same sender. >> Apart, I would very much like to see the subject too in the headline. >> >> Regarding TNEF: Since this is a Microsoft specific extension of the mail >> protocol, Leo would have to deal with it somehow, because the message body >> is packed up quite differently from the way mbox does this normally. >> >> - Josef >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "leo-editor" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
