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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I’ve found a use for DT4 that I hadn’t thought of before. Clients frequently send me emails that they have received from and sent to others. usually in no partular. order. Previously I would print each email to pdf, rename with a prefix for the date of the email and put the pdf in the folder and sort for the task in hand. Now, I put all the emails in a folder on Finder, create a new database on DT4, index the folder, and using DT4 select all and batch convert to pdf. Easier to read and rename as well., before deleting the DT4 database.
I store/order emails in .eml format
Easily reviewed within Devontink
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