Better Email plugin discussion thread

I'm going to need to see the raw source of the email you're trying to process. It's either a totally empty body, which I can't replicate, or it's some sort of multipart payload which I'm not handling properly.

What email client are you using to send these test messages? Gmail web interface?

Can you view the raw source of one of the emails (in your Sent folder) and post it here?

Thanks!

Edit: Nevermind. I see it is the Gmail web client doing something weird with multipart messages. I'll test more with it and see what I can do.

If you need help, tell me!

Thanks!

Joël

Try this version: https://github.com/FlyingDiver/BetterEm ... master.zip

Problem solved! All special code works!

Thanks!

Joël

Great. Thanks for the report.

I cannot seem to get this plugin to work with iCloud email. Log mentions SSL errors. Anyone else have experience with this?

I cannot seem to get this plugin to work with iCloud email. Log mentions SSL errors. Anyone else have experience with this?

Are you setting up an IMAP or SMTP device?

Both. I get an error on both devices. I can access the email account succesfully from the web, Mail.app on the Mac, and Mail on iOS.

Better Email Error SMTP server connection error: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:490: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol

smtp.mail.me.com port 587
xxx@icloud.com
correctPassword

OK, looks like iCloud doesn't like SSL as I have it implemented, and I'll have to implement another code path for STARTTLS. I don't know how soon I'll be able to get to that, as we're about to move into our new house. I'll get to it as soon as I can. In the meantime, can you use GMail or something else?

OK. Thanks for looking at it.

Try this version: https://github.com/FlyingDiver/BetterEm ... artTLS.zip

Edit your devices to set the Encryption type. It's now a popup selector rather than just a check box for SSL.

I think the StartTLS option works for SMTP, and the SSL option for IMAP now seems to be working for iCloud.

I have not been able to get StartTLS to work for IMAP, but that's not too surprising as that protocol is not supported in the standard Python libraries until Python 3.2. I'm using an alternate version of imaplib that does IDLE, and it's supposed to do StartTLS but something is wonky with it.

Hi Joe,
What I want to be able to do is receive an email, do some basic checks on the source and the subject, and then load the body of the email as text into a variable or save it to file, so that I can then come back and parse it in detail at my leisure.
I sort of get the impression this should be a relatively easy step from where your plugin gets, but either that it doesn't actually enable this, or else I am missing something, which is entirely plausible Is this something you can help with?
Thanks
Geoff

Hi Joe,
What I want to be able to do is receive an email, do some basic checks on the source and the subject, and then load the body of the email as text into a variable or save it to file, so that I can then come back and parse it in detail at my leisure.
I sort of get the impression this should be a relatively easy step from where your plugin gets, but either that it doesn't actually enable this, or else I am missing something, which is entirely plausible Is this something you can help with?
Thanks
Geoff

This should be pretty straightforward. First, you need to set up an IMAP or POP device to actually talk to the email server and look for messages.

Then, set up a Trigger for handling the emails you want to capture. You can use both a regex in the trigger and (if necessary) additional regex in the conditions to determine if it's an email you want to save.

Then, in the actions, use Variable Actions -> Insert Device State into Variable to save the parts of the message you want. Or you could write them to the log using the substitution syntax.

I think the StartTLS option works for SMTP, and the SSL option for IMAP now seems to be working for iCloud.

I was getting the same error messages mentioned above with Namespro.ca SMTP servers, this updated version with the StartTLS option has resolved the errors, and your plug-in now is sending email again.

Thanks,

Rycardo