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Service to fetch and print email and attachments

Hi fellow self-hosting lemmings,

In an SME setting, I’m looking for a service to regularly fetch mails from an IMAP server and print incoming mails and attachments on a local network printer based on rules (e.g., only print mails where the subject contains a specific word.)

Does a solution like that exist, ideally with a browser frontend to set it up?

Thank you!

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

You might use Node Red with this node to obtain the attachments, then send to an IPP printer with this node.

tofubl OP , (edited )

Now this is an idea I like. Thank you so much, I never would have considered Node-RED for this application!

ikidd , (edited )
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I actually use NR to keep an eye on my CUPS print queue for jobs waiting, and it sends a wakeup to a tasmota wall plug to turn on the printer and then turn it off in 5 minutes. This lets me have a network printer always ready, but not using power in idle. This might work in with your project.

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tofubl OP ,

I do actually use Node-RED myself for my zigbee home automation. Funny how it never crossed my mind to pick it up for this. It’s perfect as I want a non-programmer to be able to maintain it.

I doubt my solution will be much more than ingest and print, but I’ll report back. Still fighting to get that hp p3015 to do something over IPP…

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

BTW, if you do end up using this method, I’d love to see your implementation some day. Node Red is so useful and intuitive IMO, and people sharing their solutions is valuable.

TaterPickens ,

There’s an outlook addon that does exactly this, it’s not free but works as advertised

www.mapilab.com/outlook/print_tools/

tofubl OP ,

Thank you for the suggestion. Not exactly what I’m looking for, sadly.

MonkderZweite ,

github.com/nickrussler/email-to-pdf-converter

Make a script using your email clients files and pack it in a cronjob/scheduled task.

tofubl OP ,

Thanks for the reply. I don’t think I fully understand what you mean.

What I would like to have is a service running on a server, fetching and printing mails. Could you please elaborate how your idea would work?

MonkderZweite , (edited )

… forget it. I was about to write a long-winded answer, that you can use usual cli mail softare to fetch the eml or msg files (mails) and use the tool on them and then send the pdf to the printers (most printers use pdf internally). But then i remembered that this would be the perfect job for a python script.

But, uh, wouldn’t you better just save the mails instead of printing them? Environment and cost and so on.

tofubl OP ,

Gotcha. Thanks anyway. 🙂

You’re right about printing not being all that, but certain situations (my situation) call for it, at least for the time being.

This is for manufacturing orders in a low tech environment, and at this point in time I need to stick with a paper trail (so I can get rid of it in the future.)

stown ,
@stown@sedd.it avatar

You might want to check out Mozilla Thunderbird or even MS outlook for this. I don’t believe roundcube (web client) has this ability.

tofubl OP ,

Thanks for the idea. It’s not quite what I was looking for, but I might look into it more if I don’t find anything better.

From the looks of it, it requires python scripting anyway, so there isn’t a big advantage to fetching the mail with python and imaplib directly.

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