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 >>> >>> -- >>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Perkeep" group. 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