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Create Cards via Email

44 points by barryclark 13y ago

spleeder 13y ago
They have done an amazing job with this. You can assign cards to people and even label cards through email. Sweet!
_fountainhead_ 13y ago
Sweet
brokentone 13y ago
I was able to do this via Zapier, but never found a solid use case for this. Do love Trello though.
RobGoretsky 13y ago
This is great, the next feature I'd love to see would be a way to update existing cards via email. The use case: I create a card by forwarding an email to my trello email address. In the meantime, the email thread continues and I have a few more updates on it. Now I want to update the Trello card with the updates from that email thread. If I just forward that email to Trello, it is now creating another new card instead of updating the existing card. Would others find this feature as useful as I would?
bdcravens 13y ago
Haha, I didn't realize this was a new feature. I googled this and found this feature, and was using this feature yesterday. (info was on their Support site, but not their blog) I missed my chance for sweet karma! :-)
sourc3 13y ago
Can anyone here point me to a library/framework that would allow for monitoring incoming emails (similar to this scenario) and take actions based on email address it was sent to?
- caw 13y ago
  Not sure of a library that would let you do it, but maybe a mail server with rules that would get triggered on mail receive. Pretty sure you can run custom scripts on a postfix server based on email content.
- tworats 13y ago
  On the Python side there's Lamson and Google App Engine also has nice email handling capabilities allowing you to parse and access from your own code / app. http://lamsonproject.org/ http://lamsonproject.org/ https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/ https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/
  - sourc3 13y ago
    Looks pretty good, I will check this out in more detail! It looks like a common enough problem that I thought there would be mature frameworks around. I keep finding myself looking for a solution like this for most of my side projects..
- brianjolney 13y ago
  Postmark is one I've used in the past that has an incoming mail API (in addition to outbound) that hits an endpoint you set with email data already processed for you, attachments included.
- why-el 13y ago
  Are you language-agnostic? Ruby's mailman gem is good.
  - sourc3 13y ago
    Yes, I am language agnostic. I was leaning towards Python/Ruby solutions. I will check out mailman. Thank you.
- yogo 13y ago
  There are quite a few ways you can accomplish this with Linux + Postfix (other MTAs too) but since you have specific email addresses you want to process mail for as in this scenario the quickest way would be to have an alias[1] pipe to it to your script (language agnostic in this case). You can even use a .forward file, which might even work in the case of shared hosting. A quick example of this for Perl is http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1030830 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1030830 (replace the perl script with any program) Another way would be to setup a transport map that targets a hook that you setup in your master.cf file but it's probably best to find more tutorials online to understand everything that is taking place. 1. If your domain is using a virtual alias then point the virtual domain's recipient to the alias.
twalling 13y ago
I think its great that this was an intern's project at Trello and he got to announce it himself on their blog. Nice to see how much ownership they give their developers and sounds like a great internship.
KurtMueller 13y ago
I love trello but I still don't understand why I can't create more than 6 labels and assign my own custom colors to each label. I don't understand why I can't remove a label from the board and have that label be removed from cards throughout the board. I don't understand why I can't change the label's color instead of changing the color's label (if that makes any sense). It seems easy - can anybody elaborate as to why this might be more difficult than it seems?
- MartinCron 13y ago
  My instinct is that labels are an afterthought, and that if you're trying to do too much with labels, you're looking for more complexity than Trello wants to give you.
r00fus 13y ago
A great feature. We used Trello to plan our trip, but found it a bit cumbersome as a checklist of checklists (which is what we really wanted - more like Progect [1]). We had to print out all the tasks on paper, and use it as a real checklist - usable but a bit clunky. [1] http://progect-manager.en.softonic.com/palm http://progect-manager.en.softonic.com/palm

44 points by barryclark 13y ago

spleeder 13y ago

They have done an amazing job with this. You can assign cards to people and even label cards through email. Sweet!

_fountainhead_ 13y ago

Sweet

brokentone 13y ago

I was able to do this via Zapier, but never found a solid use case for this. Do love Trello though.

RobGoretsky 13y ago

This is great, the next feature I'd love to see would be a way to update existing cards via email. The use case: I create a card by forwarding an email to my trello email address. In the meantime, the email thread continues and I have a few more updates on it. Now I want to update the Trello card with the updates from that email thread. If I just forward that email to Trello, it is now creating another new card instead of updating the existing card. Would others find this feature as useful as I would?

bdcravens 13y ago

Haha, I didn't realize this was a new feature. I googled this and found this feature, and was using this feature yesterday. (info was on their Support site, but not their blog) I missed my chance for sweet karma! :-)

sourc3 13y ago

Can anyone here point me to a library/framework that would allow for monitoring incoming emails (similar to this scenario) and take actions based on email address it was sent to?

caw 13y ago
Not sure of a library that would let you do it, but maybe a mail server with rules that would get triggered on mail receive. Pretty sure you can run custom scripts on a postfix server based on email content.
tworats 13y ago
On the Python side there's Lamson and Google App Engine also has nice email handling capabilities allowing you to parse and access from your own code / app. http://lamsonproject.org/ http://lamsonproject.org/ https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/ https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/
- sourc3 13y ago
  Looks pretty good, I will check this out in more detail! It looks like a common enough problem that I thought there would be mature frameworks around. I keep finding myself looking for a solution like this for most of my side projects..
brianjolney 13y ago
Postmark is one I've used in the past that has an incoming mail API (in addition to outbound) that hits an endpoint you set with email data already processed for you, attachments included.
why-el 13y ago
Are you language-agnostic? Ruby's mailman gem is good.
- sourc3 13y ago
  Yes, I am language agnostic. I was leaning towards Python/Ruby solutions. I will check out mailman. Thank you.
yogo 13y ago
There are quite a few ways you can accomplish this with Linux + Postfix (other MTAs too) but since you have specific email addresses you want to process mail for as in this scenario the quickest way would be to have an alias[1] pipe to it to your script (language agnostic in this case). You can even use a .forward file, which might even work in the case of shared hosting. A quick example of this for Perl is http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1030830 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1030830 (replace the perl script with any program) Another way would be to setup a transport map that targets a hook that you setup in your master.cf file but it's probably best to find more tutorials online to understand everything that is taking place. 1. If your domain is using a virtual alias then point the virtual domain's recipient to the alias.

twalling 13y ago

I think its great that this was an intern's project at Trello and he got to announce it himself on their blog. Nice to see how much ownership they give their developers and sounds like a great internship.

KurtMueller 13y ago

I love trello but I still don't understand why I can't create more than 6 labels and assign my own custom colors to each label. I don't understand why I can't remove a label from the board and have that label be removed from cards throughout the board. I don't understand why I can't change the label's color instead of changing the color's label (if that makes any sense). It seems easy - can anybody elaborate as to why this might be more difficult than it seems?

MartinCron 13y ago
My instinct is that labels are an afterthought, and that if you're trying to do too much with labels, you're looking for more complexity than Trello wants to give you.

r00fus 13y ago

A great feature. We used Trello to plan our trip, but found it a bit cumbersome as a checklist of checklists (which is what we really wanted - more like Progect [1]). We had to print out all the tasks on paper, and use it as a real checklist - usable but a bit clunky. [1] http://progect-manager.en.softonic.com/palm http://progect-manager.en.softonic.com/palm