I completely understand DEVONthink is not cloud hosted. However, I’d love to see (and pay for via a subscription) a service, which would allow me to forward emails. The receiving end at DEVONthink would grab any attachments, maybe with a user provided set of extensions (.pdf, .docx, etc.) and temporarily store those until my local DEVONthink instance collects those and adds them to the database.
I have no need of a “cloud based bridge”
An Applescript automatically collects the email and attachments
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An Applescript automatically collects the email and attachments
Well, not if you’re using Thunderbird or any other non Apple Mail client.
Thunderbird, webmail, and most other email clients are poor choices if you want good inter-application communication.
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How is Thunderbird related to “cloud”? TB is just an e-mail client, displaying your e-mails that are stored on an IMAP server (hopefully).
You can use another IMAP client, eg Apple’s Mail, that is scriptable (eg with AppleScript or JXA) and tell it to send all attachments to DT. In this scenario, you are not required to even look at Apple’s Mail, just have it run and talk to your IMAP server.
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That’s actually not a bad idea! Thanks!
As is not having an optional integration for some of the most popular email clients. “Send attachments to DEVONthink” is such a common use case, I guess.
How would you integrate a program with another if the first one does not have an API? It may perhaps be desirable, but how would it be feasible, in your opinion?
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Use mail client’s “Save” command, send file to DT’s Global Inbox folder. I do it several times a day.
I don’t actually want an automated “send everything to DT” solution, because the amount of email I care about is a tiny fraction of the email I receive. Automatically sending everything to DT just defers the problem.
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Again, you’re talking about limitations imposed by those apps, not us. And any minor “integrations” others have tried (rarely) do not produce good results in DEVONthink.
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