apache / apache/ponymail

Enh: consider storing unrecognisable e-mails in a quarantine area

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Description

When importing from mailboxes or using the archiver, there may be the occasional e-mails that fail to parse correctly.

As far as I can tell, these are just dropped at present.

It might be useful to optionally store these in a separate quarantine area where they could be examined and rerouted as necessary.

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Research direction

Start by tracing the mailbox import and archiver paths to find where unparsable e-mails are currently dropped. Define how optional quarantine storage and later rerouting should work, then verify that malformed messages are retained without changing normal imports.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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