leo charre


turn emails to printable book

So, I got an idea.
An application that you point it to email messages, on server or flat files, and it creates a pdf book out of it. So you can print it out.. the conversations as a book.
This would be a fun project.

Let’s call it… Email::Book ?

There’s a lot of stuff on cpan that would be of great use, Email::Store.. who knows.
The task needs to be separated into various areas.

- getting the emails, server or whatever, to text files
- turn saved text file emails to db
- fetch emails from db, convert to text using template
- output to pdf

The emails could be identified by md5sum so not two are accepted twice
or the md5sum could be run on the body instead


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