Reading email
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- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 5
- Forks
- 4
- Avg merge
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Description
Introduction
There is an old pejorative saying that if you develop a software long enough, it will be able to read email. I think the saying was referring to Lotus Notes at that time, and possibly later, but has largely been forgotten today.
Pitch
However, taking the pejorative out of the equation, it would be really sweet if omniload could import mailboxes into databases, like including all their data and metadata. It should support reading from all sorts of mailbox formats, like mbox://, maildir://, pop3://, and imap://.
Goal
The goal is to make relevant content easier to search, by applying traditional and modern database search algorithms on databases which support it, by means of standard SQL wildcard search, BM25, vector search, or hybrid search.
Contributor guide
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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
No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Start by surveying the repository's loader and destination architecture, then determine how mailbox formats and searchable metadata would fit; done would require an agreed scope for supported formats, database import behavior, and search capabilities.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, sql
- Domain
- data-engineering, databases, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100