Hi all, an e-mail (gmail in particular) importer has of course been in our minds for a while, so if enough people are interested that might help moving it closer to the top of the TODO list. But I think Brad had specific ideas about it so it's probably better to coordinate with him to get it started. Do we have an open issue about it?
On 7 May 2018 at 14:40, Viktor Ogeman <[email protected]> wrote: > James, Bob, > > Thanks for those links, look interesting both of them - and I will go > through them more in detail - if there is support for trying to get > something included into “core” perkeep. > > > > On 7 May 2018, at 22:16, James Hillyerd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Shameless plug warning! > > If you do end up implementing an IMAP importer, and want to parse MIME > encoded mail (plain text vs HTML, attachments, etc), please take a look at > my library: https://github.com/jhillyerd/enmime > > MIME message quality varies significantly in the wild, and you will find > that Go's built in decoding is aimed at HTTP multipart forms, which tend to > be very consistent. > > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:52 PM Viktor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I now have a pk server up and running (thanks for the help the other day) >> and working - importing many of my artefacts. In this process I realise that >> much of the stuff I care about is stored in different mailboxes (gmail chief >> among them). >> >> As I have a lot of experience in golang, and the perkeep homepage suggests >> importers as a good place to start for new contributors I thought I could >> give this a try. >> >> Would there be interest in this if I spend time to flesh out a more >> detailed proposal that I could subsequenctly implement? >> >> My initial thought would be not to make something golang specific but >> using IMAP such that it could be re-used for other providers as well. There >> are some additional challenges related to what to do with some metadata, >> attached files etc. - but again, if there is interest I would as I said >> suggest to write up a more detailed proposal to be discussed before coding >> to much. >> >> /Viktor >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Perkeep" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Perkeep" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Perkeep" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Perkeep" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
