Extract Text From Email

[psfard]

Hi Dear Knimers,
I am looking for a node in which I could give it my email address and its password so the node will access to my emails, and as an output it returns all the text in each email individually!
Is it even possible ?
thanks in advance

[dash_brookhart]

Hey @psfard,

What kind of email system are you trying to access? Are they EML files?

Regards,
Dashiell

[Thyme]

Hi @psfard,

not an expert on that topic, but I found something on the forum. Apparently, there’s currently no way to directly access your email server:

Collect emails from email server

Hi @DmitryIvanov76 - This is an interesting question! As far as I know, there isn’t a way to do this directly using a single node in KNIME. I know the Tika Parser can read .eml files - a specialized format, to be sure - but there’s not a way to monitor an email inbox in real time. As a workaround, maybe you could set up your email software to save the email text in a particular directory, perhaps using a forwarding rule or similar. Then you could use a component like the one below to watch for…

Here’re some links I found that might be useful:
Extracting Data from email - KNIME Analytics Platform - KNIME Community Forum
Collect emails from email server - KNIME Analytics Platform - KNIME Community Forum
Feature Request: Read Text and attachement from an email - Feedback & Ideas - KNIME Community Forum

[psfard]

Hi @dash_brookhart,
I simply use yahoomail and I am thinking about a service (node) which could run manualy like every ten minutes to go throughs my emails, gets the new ones so I could do some text processing on them!

[psfard]

Thanks @Thyme yeah unfortunately it seems there isn’t yet any specific node for email minning on knime😢