EDI Command Line Interface Tools

Requirements

• Python 3

Setup

Install python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Make a copy of config/config.sample.sh to config/config.sh and set variables as fits.

# has to be done every time you run the cli.py script
source config/config.sh

Examples

Send APERAK to unanswered UTILTS messages

# make sure config/config.sh is correctly set
cd bin/
./send-aperak-utilts.sh

Get emails with certain subject

python cli.py com --username mail@domain.com --password secret --server imap.domain.com --imap-search-query "SUBJECT UTILTS NOT (SUBJECT spam)"
# returns list of mail ids

Get emails with certain subject and store in folder

python cli.py com --username mail@domain.com --password secret --server imap.domain.com --imap-search-query "SUBJECT UTILTS NOT (SUBJECT spam)" --output-dir "./saved-emails"
# stores as "email-id.eml"

Get emails and grab edi-content and parse to json format and then store

python cli.py com --username mail@domain.com --password secret --server imap.domain.com --imap-search-query "SUBJECT UTILTS NOT (SUBJECT spam)" --output-dir "./saved-emails" && python cli.py parse --from mail --to json --output-dir "./edi-messages-json" --input-dir "./saved-emails"
# stored as email-id.eml.json

Get emails and grab edi-content and parse edi and generate aperak message, convert to email and send back to the sender.

source ../config/config.sh &&
python cli.py com --imap-search-query "SUBJECT UTILTS NOT (SUBJECT spam)" --output-dir "./saved-emails" && \
python cli.py parse --from mail --to mail --aperak --output-dir "./edi-aperak-mails" --input-dir "./saved-emails" && \
python cli.py com --send --input-dir "./edi-aperak-mails"
# returns a list of email ids
# every message sent will be stored in the "sent" folder of the mail account.

Set specific emails to answered

python cli.py com --username mail@domain.com --password secret --server imap.domain.com --imap-search-query "BEFORE 14-Apr-2019" --imap-store-query \"+FLAGS\" "\\Answered \\Seen"
# returns list of email ids that was updated

Parser

Create EDI messages and convert to different formats

Communicator

Manage e-mails via SMTP and/or IMAP