RE: email automation
Consider a web service API…Not really sure about where you want to evaluate your incoming emails, but perhaps MailChimp could help. https://mailchimp.com/features/marketing-automation/ There are a bunch of ways to automate things with web services now, using Zapier. https://mailchimp.com/features/marketing-automation/ Your question opens a big pandora’s box. If you use web svc with API, either expect them to provide a library in your language, or expect them to send a structured data file over the internet, like json. For web connection, use urllib. For json use json module. On windows: py -m pip install urllib json Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Brian Oney via Python-list Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 11:37 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: email automation Dear List, I would like to send out custom automated replies to email. In the future, I would like to be able to integrate nltk and fuzzy matching if necessary. After some basic research I have a few options: 1. Grapple with OpenEMM (interesting software, has python library, still alive and kicking, a bit overkill for my use-case); 2. build on the examples in 'Automate the boring stuff'; 3. forget about it. Please tell me about any possible alternatives I missed. Kind regards, Brian -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: email automation
On 22/10/2018 18:35, Brian Oney via Python-list wrote: > Dear List, > > I would like to send out custom automated replies to email. In the future, I > would like to be able to integrate nltk and fuzzy matching if necessary. > > After some basic research I have a few options: > > 1. Grapple with OpenEMM (interesting software, has python library, still > alive and kicking, a bit overkill for my use-case); > 2. build on the examples in 'Automate the boring stuff'; >From briefly skimming the relevant section, it looks like this gives some examples with smtplib and imaplib. That sounds like a good place to start! If you happen to have a server (VPS, Raspberry Pi, PC, whatever) running a full MTA that you can forward your emails to, you could feed the relevant messages to your script directly with the help of procmail, rather than polling an IMAP server. > 3. forget about it. > > Please tell me about any possible alternatives I missed. > > Kind regards, > Brian > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: email automation
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 09:07, Thomas Jollans wrote: > > After some basic research I have a few options: > > > > 1. Grapple with OpenEMM (interesting software, has python library, > > still alive and kicking, a bit overkill for my use-case); > > 2. build on the examples in 'Automate the boring stuff'; > > From briefly skimming the relevant section, it looks like this gives > some examples with smtplib and imaplib. That sounds like a good place to > start! > > If you happen to have a server (VPS, Raspberry Pi, PC, whatever) running > a full MTA that you can forward your emails to, you could feed the > relevant messages to your script directly with the help of procmail, > rather than polling an IMAP server. +1 I experienced procmail and worked like a charm for me, in a case like yours. My script was parsing emails to grab some URIs of binary objects and queue them to be processed later. You can easily trigger a python script and do whatever you need in that script. If it is a long term process, you should just parse email and use queues for the rest. -- -- Ali Rıza Keleş -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: email automation
On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 10:31 +0100, Ali Rıza KELEŞ wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 09:07, Thomas Jollans wrote: > > > After some basic research I have a few options: > > > > > > 1. Grapple with OpenEMM (interesting software, has python library, > > > still alive and kicking, a bit overkill for my use-case); > > > 2. build on the examples in 'Automate the boring stuff'; > > > > From briefly skimming the relevant section, it looks like this gives > > some examples with smtplib and imaplib. That sounds like a good place to > > start! > > > > If you happen to have a server (VPS, Raspberry Pi, PC, whatever) running > > a full MTA that you can forward your emails to, you could feed the > > relevant messages to your script directly with the help of procmail, > > rather than polling an IMAP server. > > +1 > > I experienced procmail and worked like a charm for me, in a case like > yours. My script was parsing emails to grab some URIs of binary > objects and queue them to be processed later. > > You can easily trigger a python script and do whatever you need in > that script. If it is a long term process, you should just parse email > and use queues for the rest. > Thank you for the insights. The developer of procmail says to avoid it, as the last update was in 2001. Supposedly there are also some security concerns. The mail server does some pretty good filtering already. I made the mistake of being vague about the problem. Let me specify. - General Problem: too many emails to answer with due care - Technical Problem 1: can't be run on mail server. - Technical Problem 2: answers needed in 2 and possibly 4 languages. - Future Problem 3: don't have resources to maintain the solution forever - Future Problem 4: software may be running in many different countries with different languages and legal frameworks. - Goal: lighten the load - Potential: many emails pose questions to information already on the website. - Potential solution: automate personalized replies with relevant information. Nonetheless, barring a tip to an existing solution, I will be rolling my own. Off the top of my head, I image the setup being eerily similar to a flask website. I would rely on smtplib, imaplib, nltk, pyzmail, and jinja2. Draft Algorithm: 1. read mail 2. tokenize body's contents 3. apply logic to determine answer 4. render appropriate answer template 5. send email 6. refile email maildog/ app.py answer_logic/ english.csv german.csv french.csv maildog/ __init__.py send_mail.py read_mail.py refile_mail.py decide_answer.py templates/ base.html base.txt info.html info.txt schedule.html schedule.txt tests/ test_answer_common_email.py test_explain_upcoming_schedule.py test_read_email.py Somehow I think someone smarter already solved this niche case. A part of me wants to delve into OpenEMM. The rest wants to write code. Now that it seems that I will be writing this. What is the recommended way to set up a timer. I know 2 system options, systemd timers and cron jobs. I prefer the former for the handy logging options. What about a python solution? What would the advantage of a python queue be over a systemd timer? I guess that's an apples an oranges comparison. In my case I most likely would have a raspberry pi running a python script to read and possibly answer any emails. Thanks again for the tips. Regards, Brian -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: email automation
On 2018-10-23 13:58, Brian J. Oney via Python-list wrote: > Now that it seems that I will be writing this. What is the recommended way to > set up a timer. I know 2 system options, systemd timers and cron jobs. I > prefer the former for the handy logging options. What about a python solution? celery? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How to compare timestamps in python
Hi All , I have just playing with python , I am stuck for the following problem : file1 : Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Fri Feb 23 01:10:28 2018 Bootstrapping registry and package to current versions...done statement ERR-2001: table is corrupt check for cause could not determine the current status. Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Fri Feb 23 01:10:58 2018 file2 : LOG file opened at 02/03/18 01:11:05 DUP-05004: statement1 DUP-05007: statement2 LOG file opened at 02/03/18 01:11:14 DUP-05004: statement1 DUP-05007: statement2 LOG file opened at 02/23/18 01:10:33 DUP-05004: statement1 DUP-05007: statement2 I need to look for the ERR-2001 in file1 if it matches then go to file2 and print the message nearest to the timestamp found in file1 within two minutes of range . 1) What regex I use get the timestamp from file 1 and then file 2 ? 2) How to I acheive so in this case file1 Start: Fri Feb 23 01:10:28 2018 End time : Fri Feb 23 01:10:58 2018 check in file 2 nearest to file1 end time : 02/23/18 01:10:33 Thanks in advance, -- Asad Hasan +91 9582111698 -- Asad Hasan +91 9582111698 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to compare timestamps in python
On 2018-10-23 16:18, Asad wrote:
Hi All ,
I have just playing with python , I am stuck for the following
problem :
file1 :
Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Fri Feb 23 01:10:28 2018
Bootstrapping registry and package to current versions...done
statement ERR-2001: table is corrupt check for cause
could not determine the current status.
Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Fri Feb 23 01:10:58 2018
file2 :
LOG file opened at 02/03/18 01:11:05
DUP-05004: statement1
DUP-05007: statement2
LOG file opened at 02/03/18 01:11:14
DUP-05004: statement1
DUP-05007: statement2
LOG file opened at 02/23/18 01:10:33
DUP-05004: statement1
DUP-05007: statement2
I need to look for the ERR-2001 in file1 if it matches then go to file2 and
print the message nearest to the timestamp found in file1 within two
minutes of range .
1) What regex I use get the timestamp from file 1 and then file 2 ?
2) How to I acheive
so in this case file1 Start: Fri Feb 23 01:10:28 2018
End time : Fri Feb 23 01:10:58 2018
check in file 2 nearest to file1 end time : 02/23/18 01:10:33
Thanks in advance,
The datetime in file1 matches this regex:
\b\w{3} \w{3} \d+ \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2} \d{4}\b
When you have the datetime string, you need to parse it with
datetime.datetime.strptime; that needs to be given the format that
describes the datetime:
%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y
The datetime in file2 matches this regex:
\b\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\b
and the format for datetime.datetime.strptime is:
%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S
Finding the nearest date/time is simple: calculate the difference
between the 2 datetimes (which will return a datetime.timedelta) and
pick the one with the smallest absolute (abs(...)) value of its
.total_seconds() method.
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