I thought I had a failing installation because my first test email was not being converted.

The email had an inline image that was attached to the email. I guess I didn't know that in some cases (Gmail in this instance) an HTML image in the body of the email is also attached to the email itself.

Could there be a way to handle attached images in this manner? Perhaps it allows attachments, but only if the attachment is also used in the body of the message? That way it skips legitimately attached files but does act when the attachment is part of the email body?

My Paperless-ng(x) filters out all non-PDF attachments already, so it wouldn't import the email with the inline images anyways.

Currently, the derived base image (python 3.9) is based on a default debian install and therefore is about 1,5GB tall.
We should create an image based on alpine-linux to reduce image size.

I will create an PR tomorrow probably.

I don't need to pound my email with lookups ever minute. Can you please add the ability to override this in the yaml file or else where?

It's not producing much error details only:
email2pdf | standard_init_linux.go:228: exec user process caused: exec format error

My compose section:

  email2pdf:
    image: ghcr.io/rob-luke/emails-html-to-pdf:latest
    container_name: email2pdf
    environment:
      - IMAP_URL=xxxx
      - IMAP_USERNAME=xxxx
      - IMAP_PASSWORD=xxxx
      - IMAP_FOLDER=paperless
      - SMTP_URL=xxxx
      - MAIL_SENDER=xxxx
      - MAIL_DESTINATION=xxxx
      - INTER_RUN_INTERVAL=300
      - PRINT_FAILED_MSG='false'

Hi,

would it be possible to add an option to store the converted PDFs locally instead of sending them via SMTP again?
I deployed this container in my Paperlass Compose stack and would like to store the documents directly in the import folder (shared folder) for paperless.

Alternatively we could post the document directly to the paperless api.

Hi

Just started to use your docker instance and it seemed to be going great, but then suddenly the container stopped, looking in the logs I saw the following error a few times..

Hi, Thanks for a great project.
I wonder if it would be possible to simply save the new PDF to a folder I specify, compared to sending a new mail.
Best regards
Benjamin

This looks perfect in combination with paperless, thanks for spending your time creating this!

Sometimes, I do not only get HTML emails but simply text emails where I would need the actual headers (from, date, subject, etc.) - is it possible to include these in the generated PDF?WKHTMLTOPDF options appear to control the PDF's layout, not the content.

Hi,

since this project got some good improvements over the last days, the image should be shipped with a versioning system.
Since only the latest Tag is currently used, clients will not pull a later image because the tag name did not change.

My Recommendation:

• create a Github Release (Tag) for every new Feature / Group of Features
• Modify the Buildprocess to get triggered by the "onTag" action of GitHub and use the tagname as Docker tag
• Build the latest tag with the current master (independently of current releases) branch.

Coming from paperless-ng and hoped to find a solution to convert mails to PDF and feed them into paperless.

A PDF gets generated, but it's only the body of the mail, the headers are missing. To handle Mails in a good way in paperless, there should be an option to include all the header data - to be able to filter for subject, sender, recipient, ...

I setup a forward to move my html only emails to an email address that this script processes. The colon in the subject line (Fwd:) breaks the file naming because files cannot contain non-standard characters, the file is saved simply as "Fwd".

It would be cool to have an option to delete the mails instead of marking them as read.
Mails I want to consume will be moved into a "Processing" folder where this container picks them up. Afterwards, they are sent to the paperless instance and can therefore be deleted to keep the mail inbox empty.

I've found another edge case:

I started converting my PayPal EMails to PDFs to import them to paperless.
for most of them i get the HostNotFoundError.
This relates to the tracking pixel in their mails.

How did I fix this?:

1. append 127.0.0.1 tracking.paypal.com to /etc/hosts
2. pass pdfkit options to pdfkit.from_string:

options = {
    'load-media-error-handling': 'ignore'
}
pdfkit.from_string(pdftext, filename, options=options)

My account has 2FA enabled on it, and I don't have the option to disable 2FA. I'm assuming that is why I'm getting this error, but I don't even get a prompt on my Microsoft Authenticator app to approve the login attempt, so it doesn't seem to be getting that far.

600
Skipping virtualenv creation, as specified in config file.
Running emails-html-to-pdf
Starting mail processing run
    raise self.error(dat[-1])
imaplib.IMAP4.error: b'LOGIN failed.'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/main.py", line 257, in <module>
    process_mail(
  File "/app/main.py", line 102, in process_mail
    with MailBox(imap_url).login(imap_username, imap_password, imap_folder) as mailbox:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/imap_tools/mailbox.py", line 44, in login
    login_result = self.box.login(username, password)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/imaplib.py", line 612, in login
    raise self.error(dat[-1])
imaplib.IMAP4.error: b'LOGIN failed.'

have set up the container and set all variables correctly, however no emails are read or processed - no log entries....where can I troubleshoot this ? I have no idea, anymore. I set the imap port to 465, no different. The imap folder i set to inbox.
Please help, i really need this working.
Thnak you

trying to understand what's going wrong here - even with all variables disabled and just the image starting I get this

exec /app/runner.sh: no such file or directory

Is this an arm64 error or am I missing something ? :(

Continuation of #1 ... but today it was failing on emojis in the filenames (thanks Ebay and Walmart):
PDF: ✅-ORDER-CONFIRMED:-___.pdf
PDF: 👍-Your-order-was-delivered.pdf

Hi,

i tried converting and sending Documents which worked fine.
BUT when i use an microsoft exchange email server, the pdf attachment gets renamed to ATT000001.bin

Seems like this guy had the same problem and got it fixed this way:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52323022/pythons-email-message-library-output-not-getting-accepted-by-outlook-365-when-i

or

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59989806/email-attachment-file-names-are-removed-with-at00001

Hi,

after the merge auf #29 : Would it be possible to provide this version as a pre-build image?

Regards
Joerg

So from my experience the SMTP server that I use only works when I use STARTTLS. I tried the parameter SMTP_STARTTLS set to true but it doesn't work.

raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, b'5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6')

I have tried SMTP_TLS true and false but haven't been able to get it to connect.

I would like to offer a big thanks to @mirisbowring @smseidl and @deosrc for contributing code.

One thing that I think would make it easier for people to contribute and for me to evaluate PRs would be some continous integration testing. But I am not sure how to achieve this on github actions. I have experience setting up scientific software tests on GHA, but not email related things. So this will remain open until I find a way to implement this.

Hi all

do you know this error?

600
Skipping virtualenv creation, as specified in config file.
Running emails-html-to-pdf
Starting mail processing run
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/main.py", line 257, in <module>
    process_mail(
  File "/app/main.py", line 102, in process_mail
    with MailBox(imap_url).login(imap_username, imap_password, imap_folder) as mailbox:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/imap_tools/mailbox.py", line 48, in login
    self.folder.set(initial_folder)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/imap_tools/folder.py", line 20, in set
    check_command_status(result, MailboxFolderSelectError)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/imap_tools/utils.py", line 54, in check_command_status
    raise exception(command_result=command_result, expected=expected)
imap_tools.errors.MailboxFolderSelectError: Response status "OK" expected, but "NO" received. Data: [b'Client tried to access nonexistent namespace. (Mailbox name should probably be prefixed with: INBOX.) (0.001 + 0.000 secs).']

This part is the important, I think:
imap_tools.errors.MailboxFolderSelectError: Response status "OK" expected, but "NO" received. Data: [b'Client tried to access nonexistent namespace. (Mailbox name should probably be prefixed with: INBOX.) (0.001 + 0.000 secs)

But I don't use the folder name INBOX but Paperless instead. And INBOX must exist due to the fact that I cannot create it.

My compose is:

 email2pdf:
    image: ghcr.io/rob-luke/emails-html-to-pdf:latest
    hostname: email2pdf
    environment:
     IMAP_URL: "${EMAIL_SERVER}"
     IMAP_USERNAME: "${EMAIL_TO}"
     IMAP_PASSWORD: "${EMAIL_PWD}"
     IMAP_FOLDER: "Paperless"
     SMTP_URL: "${EMAIL_SERVER}"
     MAIL_SENDER: "${my_user}+paperless@${domain_WAN}"
     MAIL_DESTINATION: "${EMAIL_TO}"
     INTER_RUN_INTERVAL: 600
     HOSTS: "127.0.0.1 tracking.paypal.com"
     WKHTMLTOPDF_OPTIONS: '{"load-media-error-handling":"ignore"}'
     SMTP_PORT: 587
     SMTP_TLS: 'true'
     TZ: ${TZ}
    deploy:
      restart_policy:
        condition: on-failure
      mode: replicated
      replicas: 1
      placement:
        constraints:
        - node.labels.netreachable == false
    networks:
     cloud-edge: 

Thank you very much!

br
Stephan

I tried to send a Paypal receipt email to Paperless via the Email to PDF and got the below error. I don't understand why it's trying to load this page instead of the actual email... thoughts?

email2pdf    |
email2pdf    | No attachments in: You have authorized a payment to XXXXXXXX Inc.
email2pdf    |
email2pdf    | PDF: You-have-authorized-a-payment-to-XXXXXXXX_.pdf
email2pdf    |
email2pdf    | PDF: You-have-authorized-a-payment-to-XXXXXXXX_.pdf
email2pdf    | Traceback (most recent call last):
email2pdf    |   File "/app/main.py", line 98, in <module>
email2pdf    |     process_mail(imap_url=server_imap,
email2pdf    |   File "/app/main.py", line 72, in process_mail
email2pdf    |     pdfkit.from_string(html, filename)
email2pdf    |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfkit/api.py", line 72, in from_string
email2pdf    |     return r.to_pdf(output_path)
email2pdf    |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfkit/pdfkit.py", line 156, in to_pdf
email2pdf    |     raise IOError('wkhtmltopdf reported an error:\n' + stderr)
email2pdf    | OSError: wkhtmltopdf reported an error:
email2pdf    | QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
email2pdf    | Loading page (1/2)
Error: Failed to load https://t.paypal.com/ts?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, with network status code 1 and http status code 0 - Connection refused
Printing pages (2/2)                                                        ] 25%
Done                                                                        ]
email2pdf    | Exit with code 1 due to network error: ConnectionRefusedError
email2pdf    |

Hey there, thanks for your effort!
Is it possible to setup the docker-compose.yml variables to define if SSL/TLS os in or off and another option to define the port that should be used?

Is there anyway to protect the email creds more instead of having them in plain text in the docker-compose file? Would this be able to inherit the paperless email setup?

Hi

I’m looking to use something just like this, however it seems the likes of gmail and outlook (hotmail, live) etc. are now no longer supporting basic authentication (username,password) is that your understanding too ? If so what providers can be used with your set up ?

Many thanks