imap-storage

Use your Email-account as Storage for data structures and files

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system. Have a look at the documentation.

Introducing notes

• Before reaching version 1.0, the storage layout may change when updating

Prerequisites

python3.5 or later. It should work Python3.4+ but tests are running on 2.7, 3.5 and 3.7.

This project makes use of the following libraries:

• IMAPClient - easy-to-use, Pythonic and complete IMAP client library.
• lxml - the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for processing XML and HTML in the Python language

Installing

You can install the latest release from pip:

pip install imap-storage

Short example

from imap_storage import Account, Config

config = Config()
config.imap.user = 'email@example.com'
config.imap.password = '123'
config.imap.host = 'imap.example.com'  # config.imap.port default is 993

account = Account(config, 1)
directory = account.storage.directory_by_path(account.config.directory)
email = directory.new_email('Your_first_item')
email.add_item('TestMessage', text='Your first message')
email.save()
email.delete()
account.close()

Running the tests

Rename 'secrets.sample.py' in tests directory to 'secrets.py' and include your e-mail account for testing. Then run this inside root directory:

python -m unittest  # tests all
python -m unittest tests.test_account  # tests only account

or run it with coverage:

coverage run --source='imap_storage' -m unittest && coverage report -m --skip-covered

And coding style tests

Code style is not finished, mostly because of missing docstrings.

pylint imap_storage

Deployment

This library is not ready to be deployed productive

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. During beta development minor versions may be incompatible, too.

Authors

• Me - Initial work - Snake-Soft

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE.md file for details