Brad,

Did you ever have time to think some more about this?

If there is interest Id still be willing to give this a go and contribute - 
but don's want to implement something that is contrary to the main plan and 
would not get included.

/v

On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 11:59:47 PM UTC+2, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> 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] <javascript:>> 
> 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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