Re: [Tracker] Tracker to do list

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le jeudi 07 septembre 2006 Ã 17:23 +0200, Laurent Aguerreche a Ãcrit :
> Le jeudi 07 septembre 2006 Ã 12:48 +0100, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> > Im posting some to do items in case any of you lot have some spare time 
> > and want to use it hacking on tracker and help speed up development :)
>
> ...
>
> > C programming:
> >
> > To pave the way for email indexing we will need  mail/mbox handling 
> > utilities.
> >
> > Suggest use GMime
> > more info at http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/ and tutorial at 
> > http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/tutorial/
> >
> > We will need utility functions to :
> >
> >
> > 1) parse entire mbox file - extracting message ID and all other fields 
> > into a GHashTable.

Where should I place a function (or a new program?) to extract e-mails
informations and content?

Is trackerd currently capable to detect that a file is an mbox or I have
to add code for that somewhere?

> > 2) As (1) but parse only new mails (given a file offset of the last 
> > known email). All new mails are always appended to an mbox file.

I added a tracker_add_watch_file() to be called on each mbox file.

> > 3) work out whether a mail is marked as deleted or junk (evo and 
> > thunderbird use different flags in the email headers to determine this - 
> > google for the exact flags)

I 'll look at that.

> > 4) Extract plain text (we have an html filter in tracker already for html)
> >
> > 5) extract and decode mime attachments
> >
> > All the above should be easy to implement using GMime.

I begun to test GMime only two days ago... Sorry..

But I'm already able to extract infos from emails. So now, I think that
I will have problems only with trackerd.  :-)


Laurent.