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Define an event format for email. (SPEC-226)
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Description
Submitted by @matthew:matrix.org
There are several email gateways hanging around now, and it's unclear how best to represent email. Is it a custom msgtype on an m.room.message? Does it track additional fields for the SMTP headers? Does it track all the headers? What about the envelope headers? How do we handle mails larger than 65K? Do we split attachments out into MXC URLs, or keep it all mime encoded? etc
(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-226)
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing Matrix event and message conventions, then compare the email gateways mentioned in the issue. A complete result would resolve the event type, SMTP and envelope header fields, size handling, and attachment representation, with the format documented in the specification.
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Assessment
- Domain
- backend-api-design, documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100