Hi Brad, Since Mathieu that you might have some opinions on this - would it be a good item for me to work on specifying and implementing (with input from the messages in this thread) or are there other plans already?
/Viktor On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 4:33:04 PM UTC+2, Viktor wrote: > > Hi again, > > There is https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep/issues/465 > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fperkeep%2Fperkeep%2Fissues%2F465&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHMagfl0AkCU1E5ohy7d59Dzhqrwg> > but > seems to have gone stale/died. > > Ok, I will wait for Brad to pitch in if he had any more thoughts or if he > still thinks it would be good to have someone/me to write up a > suggestion/doc (as mentioned in the issue). > > > /Viktor > > On 8 May 2018, at 15:41, Mathieu Lonjaret <> wrote: > > 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 <> 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 <> 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 <> 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. > > > -- 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.
