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

clisboa · 10-10-2021, 04:41 PM

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 · 10-11-2021, 12:02 PM

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clisboa · 10-13-2021, 08:15 PM

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 · 11-20-2021, 12:02 PM

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 · 11-22-2021, 01:58 AM

This is so cool，I'll try it later.

karnonlm · 01-06-2022, 05:34 PM

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.

10-10-2021, 04:41 PM	#1
clisboa Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 150 Join Date: Oct 2021 Device: Kobo Clara HD	[WIP] KoboMail - send ebooks by email to kobo devices 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

10-11-2021, 12:02 PM	#2
ccadi Alive'n'Reading Posts: 43 Karma: 70 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: uk Device: Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Libra 2, Paperwhite 5 SE	deleted Last edited by ccadi; 10-11-2021 at 07:05 PM. Reason: found a better solution, don't wish to engage

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10-13-2021, 08:15 PM	#3
clisboa Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 150 Join Date: Oct 2021 Device: Kobo Clara HD	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.

11-20-2021, 12:02 PM	#4
clisboa Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 150 Join Date: Oct 2021 Device: Kobo Clara HD	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)

11-22-2021, 01:58 AM	#5
LuQQ Member Posts: 17 Karma: 41372 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	This is so cool，I'll try it later.

01-06-2022, 05:34 PM	#6
karnonlm Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2022 Device: kindle paperwhite 5	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.

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