imap2slack: A Rust repository from dvaerum

This program was create to post mails received from different mailing list into different Slack channels, so that our members could read and comment on the mails with in our internal communication platform. This program is make to run on linux, don't know if it runs on other operation systems.

Config

The first time you run the program, it will create a config example in the location ~/.config/imap2slack/default.toml. Edit the default.toml config file. Config the following information

defualt.toml

service If false it only checks for mails ones. If true it continues to check for mails.
sleep number of minutes to wait before checking for new mail again.
mark_mail_as_seen If false the mails will not be marked as read. If true the mails will be marked as read.

[mail]

ìmap The url for the imap server
port The port no. for the imap server
username The username
password The password

[slack]

webhook Enter the url for the Slack inbound hook
username What should the username be?
emoji Select a default or custom emoji

[[publish]]

channel The name of the channel that you want to post the mail in
mailbox The dir to the mail box (no spaces)
filter The name of the filter (optional)

filters.toml

Both contains and does_not_contains have to be satisfied before a mail is posted. If a filter is mentioned in default.toml, but does not exist in filters.toml a empty instance are created in the config file.

[filter.SOME_NAME]

case_sensitive if case sensitive true / false
contains a toml array of words that the subject of the mail should contain
does_not_contains a toml array of words that the subject of the mail should not contain