the-paperless-project/paperless

Feature Request: Multiple attachments

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#508 opened on Feb 14, 2019

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Description

Extract from my logs

Feb 14 00:10:30 paperless python3[3293]: Importing email: "Parking Letter"
Feb 14 00:10:30 paperless python3[3293]: There's more than one attachment to this message. It cannot be indexed automatically.

Any reason why more than one attachment is bad ? Or is this just an opportunity to write some code to process more that one email attachment ?

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Tech stack
python
Domain
backenddata
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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half day
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stale
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needs investigation
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PythonEmail MIME parsing
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45
Research direction
Examine the email import code in the repository, likely in documents/consumer.py or mail.py, to understand how single attachment handling works. Then design a way to handle multiple attachments, possibly by creating separate documents for each attachment. Consider existing tests or documentation for email processing.