Miloš Bovan (@mbovan)
- Drupal 8 Developer at MD Systems
- Student at Google Summer of Code 2016
- Mentor at Google Code-In 2016
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What we'll cover
- Use-cases
- Mailhandler overview
- Inmail architecture
- Current status
- Future ideas
Why emails?
March 2015, The Radicati Group
Use-cases
- Media publishing websites
- An additional channel of content creation
- Comment replies
Mailhandler + Inmail
- Redefined for Drupal 8
- Based on Inmail
- Pluggable
Features
- Creating content and comments via email
- Security (support for PGP-signed emails)
- Easy setup
- Footer separation
Architecture
Architecture
PGP Analyzer
- Default support for digitally signed emails
- An additional layer or security
- Easy setup
Entity Type Analyzer
- [{entity_type}][{bundle}] parsing
- Validation
Sender Analyzer
- Identifies e-mail sender
- Matches the user
- Disabled by default
Footer Analyzer
- Identifies e-mail message footer
- Basic implementation
- 2 cases supported:
- "-- \n" (RFC 3676)
- "On {day}, {month} {date}, {year} at {hour}:{minute} {AM|PM}" (Gmail standard)
Body Analyzer
- Analyzes the mail body
- Body manipulation
Node Handler
- Authenticates and authorizes a user
- Matches type, body, uid, title based on analyzed data
- Creates a new node entity
Comment Handler
- Available in the submodule
- Validates a user
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Signature verification
- Extracts referenced #ID information
- Matches entity_type, entity_id, subject, comment_body, uid
- Creates a new comment entity
How it works?
The current status
- Still under development
- API breaks
- Collect integration
- Extensive test coverage
The current status
- E-mail display
E-mail display
Next steps
- Drupal as a CRM
- Inmail + Collect + CRM Core
- Mailhandler
- Rules integration
- Handle Drupal commands