Extract Text From Email

[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