angelo-v / eml2pod

Convert e-mails (.eml file format) to files you can store on your Solid Pod.

eml2pod

Convert e-mails (.eml file format) to files you can store on your Solid Pod.

• Stores e-mail metadata as Linked Data using schema.org vocabulary
• Extracts attachments to plain files, like PDF, images, ...
• Assigns URIs to everything, so you can interlink with other things in your Pod or on the Solid Web.
• Easily share a mail or single attachments with your friends and colleagues by uploading them to your Pod and share access.

Usage

You need to export an E-Mail as an .eml file, which should be possible with your mail client (Possible in Thunderbird and even Gmail web client).

Then run:

npx eml2pod ./path/to/mail.eml ./output/directory/

The script does not upload anything to your Pod, you have to do this by yourself or with other tools.

eml2pod's Issues

online emlpod?

Hi.

I wonder if there is a possibility to launch a website so that one or more users can convert email files to solid-pod.

Customising Uri of message?

I just want to confirm my understanding - is this just a proof of concept at this stage?

If I understand correctly, the Uri template is hardcoded and uses the sluggified subject of the email?

eml2pod/src/rdf/emailToRdf.ts

Line 12 in 72bf81b

const baseUrl = `https://pod.example/${slug}/`;

I'm interested in exposing my email in my pod to be able to link to it e.g. in task management data.

I think what I'm after is the ability to generate globally unique persistent and deterministic URIs for each email in a form that is at least somewhat human consumable, e.g. in a LDES in LDP TREE structure with /mailbox/YYYY/mm/DD-HHMMSS-from-slug(subject).ttl

Previous work seems to have just focused on message IDs or hashes, which is then rather obscure to the user.

• https://www.w3.org/2000/04/maillog2rdf/email
• https://github.com/solid-contrib/solid-email
• https://camiel.bouchier.be/en/cb_thunderlink

Before going further down this path, I thought I'd check whether you have plans to further modularise this code if it is indeed a proof of concept at this stage?

In the interest of full disclosure, I would want ingestion of email to be automated, either from Thunderbird or directly from IMAP, so I'm not sure whether js & this code will be the language of choice.