Mainframe-Archive / Mainframe-Archive/switchboard
Process existing e-mails
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- Dominant language
- Erlang
- Stars
- 315
- Forks
- 36
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
After discussing with @jtmoulia a function to process existing e-mails would be very useful. Currently Switchboard only allows to process new e-mails. A function to also process existing e-mails would complete Switchboard for being a full IMAP API.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading Switchboard's current handling of new e-mails and the surrounding IMAP API behavior. Determine how existing e-mails should be selected and processed, then verify that the resulting function completes the missing existing-message capability without changing new-e-mail processing.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- erlang
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100