submit documents via email

[derekeder]

DocumentCloud just rolled out a new feature (based on our request) that allows send emails to them with attached images. These images will be uploaded and processed by DocumentCloud.

From @knowtheory:

https://www.documentcloud.org/accounts/mailboxes if you've got an account you can sign into and then hit that URL

you can submit an email address to us with up to 30mb of attachments, we'll hand you back another email address you can send to

Right now we've got it locked down so that the sender & recipient need to be matched

3 feature ideas:

@derekeder's answers are bold

1) whether to add a flag that allows folks to accept emails from ANY address (to their secret mailbox) probably 2) whether there should be a way to specify a project into which all documents sent to an address should be filed away into yes 3) whether API access for creating these mailboxes is a thing you'd need probably not

Let's try this out and hook it up!

[evz]

So, it works. Looks like it just dumps the documents into the root of your account (not into a particular project) and also processes anything that is an attachment. This could include images that are in the footer of peoples emails (or, in my case my PGP key).

In order for this to work for the election transcriber, we'll need to be able to specify which project things are channeled into at the very least. It's also be nice to only have the relevant things show up there. So for now, there's really nothing to implement here.

[derekeder]

@evz: Ted recommended an interim workaround: we create a new account under the NDI group and designate it as the email user. All documents uploaded with that user could be filtered as their own bucket. Would that work?