MgMail

Simple command line utility which will import document attachments from SMTP account into a Papermerge Project instance via REST API

It connects to IMAP account (your email account) via provided username/password/imap_server and iterates through all unread email messages.

For every unread message, if it finds a file attachment - it (mg-mail) uploads it via REST API to the papermerge service.

Installation

pip install mgmail

Usage

Create a configuration file e.g. mgmail.config.py Run::

    mgmail_imp --config /path/to/config.py

Configuration file

Configuration file must have .py extention and be a valid python file, example::

imap_server = "mail.paper.net"
username = "<username>"
password = "<pass>"
api_key = "<API KEY>"
papermerge_url = "<URL>"  # e.g. http://localhost:8000

Configuration Settings

• imap_server is, well, your imap server.
• username and password - your imap user account
• api_key is papermerge's API key. Get your api_key as explained here
• papermerge_url - paparmerge server instance url (with scheme i.e with http:// or https:// prefix). E.g. http://localhost:8000

Configuration Logging

Logging configuration are read from mgmail.logging.yml file. Example of mgmail.logging.yml file::

version: 1
handlers:
  xyzconsole:
    class : logging.StreamHandler
root:
  level: DEBUG
  handlers: [xyzconsole]

Example above configures root log to DEBUG level. All log messages will be displayed in console.