[WIP] KoboMail - send ebooks by email to kobo devices

[clisboa]

Hi folks,

Inspired by the send to kindle functionality I've taken this small endeavour to create something similar for kobo devices.
It's built in Go (my first program actually) and used bits and pieces of other solutions like KoboCloud, kobo-rclone and wallabako.
The way it works is by using Gmail trick that allows to send an email to user+kobo@gmail.com and the email is received on the user@gmail.com account.
This greatly simplifies any attempt to detect which emails are to be processed by the kobo device.

It's available here https://github.com/clisboa/KoboMail

Would appreciate if anyone takes a look at it and let me know of improvements .
I already have in mind using fbink to give more user feedback on what's happening behind the scenes, limiting the attachment types (it blindly saves any attachment) and allowing other email account types.

Have fun

Kind regards,
clisboa

[ccadi]

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[clisboa]

New version which now uses optionally NickelDbus to trigger the library rescan without human intervention and also presents dialogs to inform the user how many ebooks were processed.

[clisboa]

New version available:
* added hability to configure email search criteria by subject tag
* added hability to limit which filetypes we get from the emails found
* users can choose to run KoboMail automatically via UDEV rules (whenever Kobo device gets wifi) or manually via NickelMenu
* NickelDbus usage now requires new version 0.2.0 for dialog (if not present only logs will be written)

[LuQQ]

This is so cool，I'll try it later.

[karnonlm]

This is incredibly useful to me. One thing I really miss on Kobo is the ability to automatically download email attatchments. With help of KoboMail, one can automatically parse RSS News and push to Kobo for offline reading. The automatic fetching is so important to me, as I am not always connectted to Wifi on the way.

[FranciscoRocha]

Hi,
About this
email_flag_type = "subject"
email_flag = "[MyKobo]"
Is there any way to configure the script to load the attachment regardless of what is written in the subject?

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by FranciscoRocha

Hi,
About this
email_flag_type = "subject"
email_flag = "[MyKobo]"
Is there any way to configure the script to load the attachment regardless of what is written in the subject?

I believe the author is long time MIA; additionally his GitHub accoubt shows no activity since April 2022, and this project nothing since November 2021.

You might check out this fork off his project which does seem a bit more active --> https://github.com/bjw-s-labs/KoboMail

[FranciscoRocha]

Thanks

[DaRon]

Hi,
I am wondering if someone can help me here...
My setup:

Kobo Libra Colour (most recent firmware)
https://github.com/bjw-s-labs/KoboMail

When i look at the config file for KoboMail one can see this:

    # email account
   imap_user = "user@domain.tld"
    # for gmail you should use the following instructions
    # gmail app password. you will need to generate a password specifically for KoboMail
    # this can be done here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en-GB
    # other email services please review their configuration options
    imap_pwd = "password"

    # IMAP folder to process
    imap_folder = "INBOX"

    # there's two methods KoboMail can identify emails destined to be imported into you're Kobo device:
    #  - plus:      where the email server allows sending emails to user+flag@server.com (like gmail)
    #email_flag_type = "plus"
    #email_flag = "kobo"

    #  - subject:   where KoboMail will search for emails with a subject like [flag] or $flag$ .
    #               We recommend using something unique so there's no false positives, for example
    #               if you just put Kobo you might be allowing KoboMail to detect regular emails from Rakuten Kobo
    email_flag_type = "subject"
    email_flag = "[MyKobo]"

[bold green text above]
How do i specify a subfolder?
in my setup, any mail addressed to localpart+flag@.... will be put in INBOX.flag
eg. a mail sent to user+kobo@... will be saved in INBOX.kobo
but, no matter wich format i use for the imap_folder (INBOX.kobo; INBOX\kobo; INBOX/kobo; .INBOX.kobo.; etc.) - Kobomail ony checks INBOX as folder (according to the logfile Kobomail provides)

any idea would be apreciated!
thx

[PeterT]

I've not tried this on the Kobo but I've been experimenting with an imap client under linux.

The trick seems to be that the Kobo inbox folder is actually referred to as [Mailbox]/Kobo

[DaRon]

thanks but i dont get it.
when i configure my mailserver, that the "+" mails are in INBOX only and specify

imap_folder = "INBOX"

everything works just fine. There is no "/Kobo" involved anywhere...
So, i dont know, what you mean by saying:

The trick seems to be that the Kobo inbox folder is actually referred to as [Mailbox]/Kobo

Thing is: my whole setup is based on that the "+" mails are delivered in a subfolder of INBOX - and I am not able to figure out, how I specify a subfolder of INBOX in imap_folder = "<howtospecifyasubfolder>"

[PeterT]

Sprry; I'd thought you were using gMail as your mail provider.