imap-to-webhook

A stateless service is designed to build a relay between an IMAP server and any web application in a simple, convenient way, well-known by web-developers, without delving into the format of the mail format.

Using the service requires only writing one HTTP endpoint!

It periodically retrieves IMAP messages from selected IMAP folder, parsers them into a convenient JSON object for use in web applications. Next to send to specified HTTP(S) endpoint. The message can be moved to another IMAP folder or deleted completely. In case of connection errors, the message is moved to another folder.

Send JSON object, among others includes:

• extracted HTML (if available) or text content
• message divided into content and quote
• all attachments and filenames of them,
• indication if the message is automatic (vacation reply, confirmation of receipt)

Configuration

Configuration takes place via environment variables. The following environment variables are supported:

Name	Description
IMAP_URL	URL connection to access mailbox. Example imap+ssl://user:pass@localhost/?inbox=INBOX
IMAP_URL?folder	Folder to download messages
IMAP_URL?error	Folder to move messages on error (error)
IMAP_URL?success	Folder to store messages on success (success)
ON_SUCCESS	Action to perform on process messages. Available move, delete
WEBHOOK_URL	URL endpoint to send parsed messages. Example: https://httpbin.org/post
COMPRESSION_EML	Specifies whether the sent .eml file should be compressed or not. Example: true
DELAY	Length of the interval between the next downloading of the message in seconds. Default: 300
SENTRY_DSN	Sentry DSN to report application exceptions. Not set to disable Sentry.

Request

Here ie example request which you can expect to receive:

{
    "headers": {
        "auto_reply_type": "vacation-reply",
        "cc": [],
        "date": "2018-07-30T11:33:22",
        "from": [
            "[email protected]"
        ],
        "message_id": "<[email protected]>",
        "subject": "Odpowied\u017a automatyczna: \"Re: Problem z dostarczeniem odp. na fedrowanie\"",
        "to": [
            "[email protected]"
        ],
        "to+": [
            "[email protected]",
            "[email protected]"
        ]
    },
    "text": {
        "content": "W dniach 30.07-17.08.2018 r. przebywam na urlopie.",
        "quote": ""
    },
    "files_count": 1,
    "files": [
        {
            "content": "MTIzNDU=",
            "filename": "my-doc.txt"
        }
    ],
    "eml": {
        "filename": "a9a7b32cdfa34a7f91c826ff9b3831bb.eml.gz",
        "compressed": true,
        "content": "...base64-encoded-gzipped-bytes..."
    }
}

It contains fields:

JSON Path	Description
headers.auto_reply_type	Indicates whether the message is automatic or send by human. Empty, if no indicators of automatic character were found.
headers.cc	List of e-mail address in CC
headers.date	Date available of message. The values can be hijacked by the recipient to include any date
headers.from	List of address available in From header
headers.message_id	Message identifier from the Message-ID header
headers.subject	An additional comment is not required
headers.to	List of e-mail address in To header
headers.to+	List of various potential message recipients address, even redirected.
text.content	Text content of the message, converted from HTML (if available) or text form and truncated to the new content itself
text.quote	Content truncated from a content that is potentially a quote
files_count	Number of attachments
files.*.content	Base-64 encoded binary content of the attachment
files.*.filename	Filename of attachment
eml.filename	Random file name with the correct extension
eml.compressed	Determines whether the next field contains gzip compressed content or uncompressed.
eml.content	Original .eml message without any modifications, except lossless compresion

The request contains a header:

Content-Type: application/imap-to-webhook-v1+json

Run

$ docker build -t imap-to-webook:latest .
$ docker run -e IMAP_URL=imap://imap.example.com/ -e WEBHOOK_URL="https://example.com" imap-to-webhook:latest

Development

In order to facilitate the development, the docker-compose.yml file is provided.

$ git clone [email protected]:watchdogpolska/imap-to-webhook.git 
$ cd imap-to-webhook
$ cp .env.sample .env
$ docker-compose up

The following services are provided:

• daemon - proper service
• mock - a simple web server that accepts requests and writes them to the stdout.

Testing

Following commands are required to run tests:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python test.py