On phone at the moment but I'll send out a list this week of open questions
about the design that we'd need to decide on first. I'm still undecided on
some points so a discussion would be good.


On Sun, May 13, 2018, 3:54 PM Viktor <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>
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