This was previously assigned to Sebastian Aschoff for his Master's thesis. I chatted with him, and since we are ready to start on it now, we will pull it over and start working on it. If Andreas feels that it is critical for Sebastian's thesis, then Sebastian will take if over from us. (the same for issue 391 - Twilio). Please note that both require legal clearance before we can release them into the wild.
Hi
Andreas assigned a task to me and Sebastian to implement IMAP for incoming emails. I have created a service provider for that, it is now available , to use it :
The feed action is available as a public action within my namespace:
/talmaam@de.ibm.com_mainSpace/imapFeed
a precanned action is essentially 'just' a code sample (of which there a many available here, for simple copy & paste: https://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/Code_Examples/index.html) . however, having an email-based feed implemented is non-trivial value-add to openwhisk. it's good to have an action, but i just don't see the priority as being as high.
We have legal clearance to create the package/action, but not to externalize it yet. We must expose the need for the customer to have an ID of their own.
@browezilla let's clarify what does "but not to externalize", I think we are OK here since how packages are not going to be install by default, user will be the one to install the package in openwhisk.
Installing the senGrid package in a comercial offering of openwhisk like bluemix, it's up to that company (i.e. IBM) to make the decision if they want to install the package in their production openwhisk for their customers.
For now the developer doing this work, I suggest follows the same pattern as openwhisk/wsk-pkg-pushnotifications and make it public here in opensource. We can create a new repo (i.e. openwhisk/openwhisk-package-email)
@csantanapr commented on Thu May 12 2016
From @sjfink : We could use SendGrid -- though there have been some concerns about dropped messages and spam filters.
We need an action to send outgoing emails and a feed to receive incoming emails as triggers.
@mbehrendt commented on Fri May 13 2016
i'd suggest to prioritize the event source higher than the action
@browezilla commented on Tue May 31 2016
This was previously assigned to Sebastian Aschoff for his Master's thesis. I chatted with him, and since we are ready to start on it now, we will pull it over and start working on it. If Andreas feels that it is critical for Sebastian's thesis, then Sebastian will take if over from us. (the same for issue 391 - Twilio). Please note that both require legal clearance before we can release them into the wild.
@tareqmamari commented on Tue May 31 2016
Hi Andreas assigned a task to me and Sebastian to implement IMAP for incoming emails. I have created a service provider for that, it is now available , to use it :
/talmaam@de.ibm.com_mainSpace/imapFeedwsk trigger create imapTrigger -p user 'EMAIL' -p pass 'PASSWORD' -p host 'HOST' -p mailbox 'MAILBOX' --feed imapFeedExample:wsk trigger create imapTrigger -p user 'almaamaritest@gmail.com' -p pass 'XXXX' -p host 'imap.gmail.com' -p mailbox 'INBOX' --feed imapFeed@sjfink commented on Tue May 31 2016
why? sending emails is a very useful facility.
@mbehrendt commented on Tue May 31 2016
a precanned action is essentially 'just' a code sample (of which there a many available here, for simple copy & paste: https://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/Code_Examples/index.html) . however, having an email-based feed implemented is non-trivial value-add to openwhisk. it's good to have an action, but i just don't see the priority as being as high.
@browezilla commented on Wed Jun 01 2016
https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Webhooks/event.html
@browezilla commented on Wed Jun 08 2016
We have legal clearance to create the package/action, but not to externalize it yet. We must expose the need for the customer to have an ID of their own.
@csantanapr commented on Wed Jun 08 2016
@browezilla let's clarify what does "but not to externalize", I think we are OK here since how packages are not going to be install by default, user will be the one to install the package in openwhisk.
Installing the senGrid package in a comercial offering of openwhisk like bluemix, it's up to that company (i.e. IBM) to make the decision if they want to install the package in their production openwhisk for their customers.
For now the developer doing this work, I suggest follows the same pattern as openwhisk/wsk-pkg-pushnotifications and make it public here in opensource. We can create a new repo (i.e. openwhisk/openwhisk-package-email)
We just need to like business as usual that any code or 3rd party libraries are compatible with the main openwhisk one Apache 2.0 (https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) License
@markusthoemmes commented on Fri Mar 10 2017
@csantanapr move to catalog?