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inbox : Process incoming emails¶
The lino_xl.lib.inbox plugin adds functionality for processing a mailbox
of incoming emails.
It usually consumes the mailbox, i.e. deletes the messages from the inbox after processing them.
Side note: Code snippets (lines starting with >>>) in this document get
tested as part of our development workflow. The following
initialization snippet tells you which demo project is being used in
this document.
>>> import lino
>>> lino.startup('lino_book.projects.cms1.settings')
>>> from lino.api.doctest import *
Which means that code snippets in this document are tested using the
lino_book.projects.cms1 demo project.
Plugin settings¶
- inbox.subaddress_separator¶
The character sequence to use for separating the “local” from the “subaddress” part in email addresses. Default value is
"+". See Subaddressing below.
- inbox.inbox_path¶
Default value is None
- inbox.inbox_type¶
Default value is
"mailbox.mbox"
- inbox.discard_processed_message¶
Default value is False
- inbox.upload_area¶
Default value is
'general'. If this is None, files to attached incoming emails will be ignored.
- inbox.upload_volume¶
Default value is
'inbox'. If this is None, files to attached incoming emails will be ignored.
Subaddressing¶
Lino uses subadressing RFC 2533 (also known as plus
addressing) as follows (the examples assume that SERVER_EMAIL is
'inbox@example.com'):
inbox+123@example.com (one separator) means that replying to this email will create a comment that replies to the comment 123.
inbox+12+34@example.com (two separators) means that replying to this email will create a comment that is owner by the database object with content type 12 and primary key 34.