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Factor out "email in public" parts
James McKinney edited this page Jul 6, 2014
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See this google groups thread.
The ability to send emails in public would be useful for several different projects.
The proposal is to design a REST-based API for sending, receiving and parsing emails. This would probably be based on a comprehensive python library.
It might include:
- an email message class to handle encodings and attachments, detecting quoted parts etc.
- email tagging
- handling of bounces,
- vacation messages
- REST api
- different algorithms to generate a unique id for sending emails
- email prefix with salt and mail number in "from" address:
<prefix><emailNum><hash>@domain
- email mixed up from lots of random 3 - 4 letter words.
- email prefix with salt and mail number in "from" address:
Existing email parsing utilities etc:
- https://github.com/mikel/mail/ (Ruby library)
- https://github.com/stefanw/froide/blob/master/froide/helper/email_utils.py
- http://www.ianlewis.org/en/parsing-email-attachments-python
- https://bitbucket.org/dariusdamalakas/parasykjiems/src/55603c50c53d/pjutils/get_mail.py
- https://github.com/sebbacon/PublicMail/
- https://github.com/sunlightlabs/sarahs_inbox/ (maybe)
Existing email parsing services: