[Feature request] Connectors detecting emails

whuber
Hi,

A modest request: could the browser connectors recognised emails? Could translators be updated to detect e.g Google Inbox, etc?
  • adamsmith
    Zotero will import the gmail print view of messages. Everything else on gmail is too dynamic to be usable for import.
  • whuber
    I'm actually not getting it to work: might you walk me through it? It still gets added as a "web page" with the title "Inbox - [my email address]" as tht title, and no other metadata.
  • adamsmith
    Click on the printer icon at the top right of the message in gmail. The message will open in a new window. Click away the printer dialog that will likely open. You should then see the Zotero icon convert into an e-mail icon.
  • whuber
    After trying it, it seems that works with classic Gmail, but not with Inbox, and it doesn't look like it would be straightforward to make it work with Inbox. I have one suggested feature adjustment that would make it work with Inbox, though: have Zotero detect the output of "Show Original" from Gmail (which functions correctly in Inbox) and translate that into an email object. Do-able?
  • adamsmith
    Probably doable, but that output looks super ugly because it has the whole RFC header. Is that really worth it?
  • whuber
    In my case, worth it, yeah, because pretty soon I'm going to be doing some interviews by email.
  • whuber
    Just an update on this: it isn't working with the current Gmail design.
  • adamsmith
    This works for me on my gmail account, but then I'm never quite sure what the "current" design on gmail is given the various experiments they're running, new layouts they're testing etc.
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