[Evolution] Saving Email Messages to Disk Automatically
Hey, So I'm having some trouble saving email message to disk. If I move them to the On this Computer folder they appear in the .local folder as text documents but otherwise I cannot access them on disk as far as I can find. I'm trying to construct a process that saves the emails to disk automatically so I can run a program on them at intervals and save the data into a PostgreSQL database. Is there anyway to automatically move the emails from my email address to the computer or a simpler avenue to do what I want? My version is 3.12.11 running on Fedora. Thanks! Pat -- Patrick Huguelet University of Michigan '16 College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Concentration in Neuroscience and Computer Science (248) 534-3948 ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Saving Email Messages to Disk Automatically
So I'm having some trouble saving email message to disk. If I move them to the On this Computer folder they appear in the .local folder as text documents but otherwise I cannot access them on disk as far as I can find. It is unwise to play around with things in Evolution's private data store - you can cause confusion and data corruption for the program. And they aren't text documents, it's a Maildir formatted mail store. I'm trying to construct a process that saves the emails to disk automatically so I can run a program on them at intervals and save the data into a PostgreSQL database. Is there anyway to automatically move the emails from my email address to the computer or a simpler avenue to do what I want? Couple of possibilities - really depends on what format you want the mail in: 1. Use a filter to pipe the mail to a program as it's received. 2. Create a mail store on disk somewhere (either mbox or Maildir depending on how you want to process it), create a new mail account in Evo pointing to that mail store and then copy incoming mail into that mail store using a filter. A word of warning with filters and programs - the filter will wait until the external program terminates before continuing, so if the program takes a long time to do any processing, then Evo will also take a long time to process any incoming mail. P. -- Pete Biggs pete.biggs @ chem.ox.ac.uk Chemistry IT Support queries to h...@itsupport.chem.ox.ac.uk ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Saving Email Messages to Disk Automatically
Patrick Huguelet wrote: Hey, So I'm having some trouble saving email message to disk. If I move them to the On this Computer folder they appear in the .local folder as text documents but otherwise I cannot access them on disk as far as I can find. I'm trying to construct a process that saves the emails to disk automatically so I can run a program on them at intervals and save the data into a PostgreSQL database. Is there anyway to automatically move the emails from my email address to the computer or a simpler avenue to do what I want? evolution isn't the best suited tool for that. If you want to automatically download the contents of a mailbox for automatically processing them, I would use a program like fetchmail or mpop (you should configure them to pipe into the script, instead of using a pre-existing mailbox format like Maildir or mbox). ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Saving Email Messages to Disk Automatically
On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 02:45 +0200, Ángel González wrote: So I'm having some trouble saving email message to disk. If I move them to the On this Computer folder they appear in the .local folder as text documents but otherwise I cannot access them on di as far as I can find. I'm trying to construct a process that saves the emails to disk automatically so I can run a program on them at intervals and save the data into a PostgreSQL database. Is there anyway to automatically move the emails from my email address to the computer or a simpler avenue to do what I want? evolution isn't the best suited tool for that. If you want to automatically download the contents of a mailbox for automatically processing them, I would use a program like fetchmail or mpop (you should configure them to pipe into the script, instead of using a pre-existing mailbox format like Maildir or mbox). I think fetchmail is also the wrong tool for this job. I would recommend using the imaplib Python module to connect to the mail server and retrieve the message and process them into your database. This make synchronization straight forward and efficient - you can use the mailboxes UID as an anchor and easily process new messages, and just get the parts of the message from the server that you want. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
