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 >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
