Is their a mean to fill up automatically information of E-mail items ?

As far as I know, no.

I would like the ability to send an email with an attachment to a special Zotero email address that would store the email with attachment as an unfiled document. I could later go into Zotero and decide where to file it, assign the item type, and other details based on the item type I select. I often receive PDF attachments in email that I want to get stored in Zotero. I have not thought through the details of how this might work, but in general I think the ability to send an email with an attachment to Zotero would be valuable to many users.

This, like many suggestions, would be great as a third-party service that used the server API to talk to Zotero proper. This is something that could be built with universal web glue like the startup-of-the-month, Ifttt (http://ifttt.com/) -- if someone added Zotero support to it or to any other of the many glue solutions. But they tend to be curated and closed-source, so there's not much we can do to make them work with Zotero at the moment.

I'd like to second steve.bannister's suggestion! Currently my technique is to save the email in html format, open it into firefox, then create an item button. Doesn't do the attachments unless you attach another item.

I add my name to the wish list for email integration with zotero.

I feel the importance of bridging the gap between the two highly important research tools "email" and "reference management" (aka zotero) is being underestimated. The multitude of threads on this forum discussing email import and export to and from zotero seems like a clear indication on the usefulness of this functionality.

Personally I disagree with supporting only one email client such as Thunderbird and lean towards the suggestion raised by amieharpe in the fourth post of this thread. A direct ripoff of the functionality in Evernote seems ideal from my standpoint; an email adress associated with zotero which for every received email creates a generic zotero item (or an email item) complete with attachments. It makes importing email and attachments to zotero as simple as hitting the "forward" button in your preferred email front end. If said email adress could also be used to send items, collections or reference lists from within zotero... well, that would not be icing on the cake but a whole yummy layer of cake on its own.

Me too!

I am quite interested in this idea. Zotero has email as an item, but no way to automatically import emails into the database. This seems to underestimate the amount of bibliographic-related information passed by email. The source might be the email itself (as in an email item) or could be an attachment to the email (likely a PDF, but could also be an image file).

I can see the utility of an add-in for Outlook since many campuses and businesses use Outlook for their organizational mail (especially via Office365) and Outlook has the option for add-ons. There could be challenges with implementation, however, if, at the organizational level, perms are set so that users cannot install add-ons. Alternately, gmail is also fairly common among researchers because of the cross functionality between devices and the integration with other Google tools. Perhaps the best suggestion is the idea of being able to forward an email to a user-specific Zotero address and have Zotero automatically parse it and add it to the users DB. If these items were automatically grouped into a specific "catch it here" subfolder so that a user could further develop the item (notes, tags, and re-filing) that could be ideal. I dislike the idea of standardizing it on any specific email system (e.g. Thunderbird) that is not widespread since that will limit the availability and usefulness.

Did this go anywhere?

No new developments, no.

Interested and doing it by hand

I am also very interested in this feature.

There is a piece of code which pastes data from the Microsoft Outlook Data Model to the clipboard.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/vba-create-a-link-to-a-specific-email-and-copy-it/686ec402-8151-4e32-8948-edd33fc801a2

Maybe it is possible to put the fields into a Zotero readable scheme?

Adding my voice here: would love this feature! Something to efficiently bring emails into Zotero. Seems like you could quickly pull the metadata from the email (author, title, date received) and then store the .eml file.

I just came here looking for this. As others have said, a lot of research ingredients arrive as emails -- I'd love to permanently record and cite them using Zotero.

I have figured out how to do this with Gmail, though the process is convoluted. It would be great to have it as a feature that works on the most commonly used email systems. Here's the Gmail process:

https://genohistory.com/forum/topic/emails-in-gmail-a-convoluted-partial-capture-process/