I've been using this email plugin successfully for several months. Around version 2.12.19 of Joplin (I'm not exactly sure of the version), it stopped being able to process any emails from the selected folder. Authentication to the email server works fine.

In the logs, everything looks ok:
PluginService: "Loading plugin from /Users/dvreeman/.config/joplin-desktop/cache/Bishoy.EmailPlugin"
joplin.plugins: "Finished running onStart handler: Bishoy.EmailPlugin (Took 3289ms)"

However, there are a few issues in the Dev Tools Console output -- I can't determine their significance:

Hello,

This plugging seems very interesting, but...
All my emails are stored in box format, I haven't any xml file.
Is it planned to integrate this format?

Hi,

I'm trying to configure the Email Plugin, but I think there is an infinite loop bug.

Email provider

I host my personal mailcow: dockerized mail server on DigitalOcean.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the Email plugin.
2. Click "Manually connect to IMAP".
3. Fill in the information.
   1. Email address.
   2. Password.
   3. Domain.
   4. Port 993.
   5. TLS enabled.
4. Click LOGIN.

Problem conditions

The problem does NOT happen on an empty Joplin profile.

If I change to a new profile and configure the plugin, it successfully logs in and imports notes from the mailbox.

Then, if I import my notes from the .jex backup into the new profile, it continues working and importing notes from the mailbox.

But after importing my notes from the .jex backup, and try to logout and log back in with the Email plugin, the problem happens again.

So I don't know if the bug is in Joplin or in the Email plugin. It seems to only happen when there are notes and notebooks present at the time of logging in. But I'm not sure how to isolate the exact minimal conditions to reproduce the issue.

Negative testing

I tried with the wrong password, and I got a popup message saying "Error: Authentication failed."

The infinite loop doesn't happen in that case.

Logs

I enabled debug logs by following these instructions. Here is an extract of the output, starting at the first instance of the string "Email".

2023-06-06 13:54:24: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.views.panels.postMessage", "["plugin-view-Bishoy.EmailPlugin-panel","enableLoginScreen"]"
2023-06-06 13:54:24: UserWebview: "Got message", "postMessageService.plugin_message", "{"message":"enableLoginScreen"}"
2023-06-06 13:54:24: UserWebview: "Got message", "postMessageService.response", "{"message":{"responseId":"userWebview_16860812622680.20734508102333438","error":null}}"
2023-06-06 13:54:24: "ResourceService::indexNoteResources: Start"
2023-06-06 13:54:24: "ResourceService::indexNoteResources: Completed"
2023-06-06 13:54:24: "ResourceService::deleteOrphanResources:", "[]"
2023-06-06 13:54:25: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.views.panels.setHtml", "<hidden>"
2023-06-06 13:54:25: UserWebview: "Got message", "postMessageService.response", "{"message":{"responseId":"userWebview_16860812652820.8807690608651975","error":null}}"
2023-06-06 13:54:25: UserWebview: "Got message", "setHtml", "{"hash":"f99d236664e4e7f4a8ab425f23498b34","html":"<div class=\"container\">\n\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"font-size: large;\">\n\n  <div class=\"col-md-9 col-lg-7 col-xl-5 mx-auto\">\n\n  <div class=\"card border-0 shadow rounded-3 my-3 align-middle d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"opacity: 0.97; top: 100px;\" >\n\n      <div class=\"card-body p-4 p-sm-5\">\n\n        <h1 class=\"card-title text-center mb-3 fw-light fs-1\">Login</h1>\n\n        <form action=\"\" onsubmit=\"loginManually(); return false\">\n          \n          <div class=\"form-floating mb-3\">\n            <input type=\"email\" class=\"form-control\" id=\"email\" placeholder=\"[email protected]\" required>\n            <label for=\"floatingInput\">Email address</label>\n          </div>\n          \n          <div class=\"form-floating mb-3\">\n            <input type=\"password\" class=\"form-control\" id=\"password\" placeholder=\"Password\" onclick = \"addBlockquote()\" required>\n            <label for=\"floatingPassword\">Password</label>\n          </div>\n\n          <div class=\"input-group\">\n            <span class=\"input-group-text\">Server</span>\n            <input type=\"text\" aria-label=\"First name\" class=\"form-control\" placeholder=\"imap.example.com\"\n              id=\"server\" required>\n          </div>\n\n        <br>\n\n        <div class=\"input-group\">\n          <span class=\"input-group-text\">PORT</span>\n          <input type=\"number\" aria-label=\"First name\" class=\"form-control\" placeholder=\"993\" min=\"1\" id=\"port\" required>\n        </div>\n\n        <br>\n\n        <div class=\"form-check\">\n          <input class=\"form-check-input\" type=\"checkbox\" value=\"\" id=\"ssl_tls\" checked>\n          <label class=\"form-check-label\" for=\"ssl_tls\">\n            SSL/TLS\n          </label>\n        </div>\n\n        <blockquote class=\"blockquote\">\n          <cite style = \"font-size: 15px;\" id = \"quote\"></cite>\n        </blockquote>\n\n          <div class=\"d-grid\">\n            <button id=\"login_btn\" class=\"btn btn-outline-primary btn-login text-uppercase fw-bold\" type=\"submit\" style=\"font-size:large;\">Login</button>\n          </div>\n\n        </form>\n\n        <br>\n\n        <div class=\"container\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-outline-info\" style=\"width: 75%; font-size: large;\"\n            onclick=\"loginScreen()\">Login Screen</button>\n        </div>\n\n        <hr class=\"my-4\">\n\n        <div class=\"container\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-outline-danger\" onclick=\"hide()\">Close</button>\n        </div>\n\n      </div>\n    </div>\n  </div>\n</div>\n</div>\n"}"
2023-06-06 13:54:40: UserWebview: "Got message", "postMessageService.response", "{"message":{"responseId":"userWebview_16860812806990.713801072367042","error":null}}"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders"]]"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders","52beed25bcb54227972c77e7494fea90"]]"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders","93fc6e32a77b40cea499eacd8d1583e3"]]"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders","93fc6e32a77b40cea499eacd8d1583e3"]]"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders","52beed25bcb54227972c77e7494fea90"]]"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders","93fc6e32a77b40cea499eacd8d1583e3"]]"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders","52beed25bcb54227972c77e7494fea90"]]"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders","52beed25bcb54227972c77e7494fea90"]]"
2023-06-06 13:54:41: PluginRunner: "Got message (3): joplin.data.get", "[["folders","52beed25bcb54227972c77e7494fea90"]]"

This loop of joplin.data.get messages continues seemingly forever, at a rate of about 500 per second, and with repeating UIDs, until I stop the Joplin application.

In Dovecot logs, I see a successful login, but then nothing else until I close the Joplin application.

imap-login:  Login: user=<[REDACTED]>, method=PLAIN,  rip=[REDACTED], lip=[REDACTED], mpid=342267, TLS, TLSv1.3 with  cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)

imap([REDACTED])<343090><Zc37KXz9VKtiPIes>: Disconnected: Connection closed (IDLE running for 0.001 + waiting input for 1.925 secs, 2 B in + 10 B out, state=wait-input) in=90 out=1176 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0 body_bytes=0

Hi again,

in the generated note the e-mail sender is missing. It would be great if this could be added in the generated note. In the upload preview the sender information is shown. I've attached 2 screenshots.

Possible solution which also would make the note look more "mail-ish" ;-)

Just add a block with some e-mail-metadata before the message body, e.g.

---
From: Margret Ludwig <[email protected]>
To: Beirat hausverwaltung <[email protected]>
Subject: Protokoll der letzten Sitzung
Date: 17. November 2022 um 16:40:21 MEZ
---

... here comes the message body, attachments, etc. ...

Maybe this could be activated/deactivated in the plugin preferences. Just some thoughts...

Best regards from Putzbrunn, Germany,
Christian

Hi, thanks for this very useful addon!

Would it be possible to get a new release to be able to use the features that have been added since the first version?

I tried to build a current version by myself, but after running npm run dist I got lost with the message Error: Unknown option '--joplin-plugin-config'. Help with this would also be appreciated.

Regards,
Martin

Hi @bishoy-magdy

After some tests (and unless I'm mistaken), it seems that tags are not correctly supported in the title when using the option to retrieve all new messages from a mailbox rather than from a particular address.

My e-mail login with my provider is not the same as the e-mail address and does not contain an @ in so I am unable to use this to log in. Is it possible to remove the requirement for an @ in the login username for providers that issue a separate login rather than using an e-mail address?

Hi,
Just installed this from the current build. Created a new email account called [email protected], connect to it OK. Sent a test email to it OK. Activate the plugin by using the manual connect to IMAP option. Enter the username password and server details, 993, using TLS. All basically default. It connects, and from the log on the mail server I can see it authenticates just fine, but it goes no further. Just sits +idle. The client end is just stuck on 'loading'. I've removed and re-added it, and tried a few times. Always the same.

Any suggestions?

When sending plain text email via Python Scripts, the message imports however the body shows as folllows:

This Email Has No Body

Any and all attempts to correct this still show no contents.

Hello, I created a new gmail account just for this purpose. I could not login through the plugin with standard or IMAP logins. I did activate IMAP for this email account, still no luck. I tried app password for both standard and IMAP logins as well. No luck.

Are there any workarounds for this, or are there other gmail settings I need to change??

Thanks!

I quite like having the plugin to document mails occasionally. However, I constantly have an activity display that is always visible and gets on my nerves when I'm concentrating on my work. Please leave it out, no one who is already an adult probably needs it ;-) But a status string would be nice.

Hi there I'm using Joplin & the Email plugin on macOS...

Joplin 2.11.11 (prod, darwin)
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 43
Keychain Supported: Yes
Revision: 6886f6f
Email Plugin: 1.0.0
macOS theme: 1.3.13
Publish to Web: 1.1.0

Email sent to the specific mailbox I've setup are being polled and received into Joplin as expected. Attachments to the email however - though they are listed and appear to be linked, do not reveal/open the PDF attachment - see attached.

Any reason/fixes I could try to get the attachments to appear?

When the plugin grabs an email that has been sent from Thunderbird, the note that gets created says "This Email Has No Body" like in #14. I also get no email body

• when I copy the email from my Inbox in the folder that the plugin has access to,
• when I send the email using the webapp of my email provider (mailbox.org), or
• when I send the mail from KMail.

However, it does work when I send the same email with Apple Mail.

It doesn't matter if the email has an attachment or not, or if it's html formatted or not.

Can not login ("Manually connect to IMAP"), the credentials are alright. Tryed another mail account without success.
Joplin 2.9.17 / Windows 10 (same issue on my notebook with windows 11)

Hi - it's me again :-),

I've imported an eml file via "eml upload". In the generated note the message body has disappeared. See screen shot. I tested with all three options "html", "text" and "markup".

If you need the eml file I could send it to you, but I don't want to put it on this public webpage.

OS: Mac OS 12.5.1
Mail Client: Apple Mail

Best regards,
Christian

Hi,
in Germany "Strato.de" is one of the biggest e-mail (and homepage) provider. Could you add this please? I think it belongs into /src/core/emailProviders.ts

   {
        type: 'Strato',
        host: 'imap.strato.de',
        port: 993,
        tls: true,
   },

Thank's a lot,
Christian