/* eslint-disable n8n-nodes-base/node-filename-against-convention */ import type { ITriggerFunctions, IBinaryData, IBinaryKeyData, ICredentialsDecrypted, ICredentialTestFunctions, IDataObject, INodeCredentialTestResult, INodeExecutionData, INodeType, INodeTypeBaseDescription, INodeTypeDescription, ITriggerResponse, JsonObject, } from 'n8n-workflow'; import { NodeOperationError } from 'n8n-workflow'; import type { ImapSimple, ImapSimpleOptions, Message } from 'imap-simple'; import { connect as imapConnect, getParts } from 'imap-simple'; import type { Source as ParserSource } from 'mailparser'; import { simpleParser } from 'mailparser'; import rfc2047 from 'rfc2047'; import isEmpty from 'lodash/isEmpty'; import find from 'lodash/find'; import type { ICredentialsDataImap } from '../../../credentials/Imap.credentials'; import { isCredentialsDataImap } from '../../../credentials/Imap.credentials'; export async function parseRawEmail( this: ITriggerFunctions, messageEncoded: ParserSource, dataPropertyNameDownload: string, ): Promise { const responseData = await simpleParser(messageEncoded); const headers: IDataObject = {}; const additionalData: IDataObject = {}; for (const header of responseData.headerLines) { headers[header.key] = header.line; } additionalData.headers = headers; additionalData.headerLines = undefined; const binaryData: IBinaryKeyData = {}; if (responseData.attachments) { for (let i = 0; i < responseData.attachments.length; i++) { const attachment = responseData.attachments[i]; binaryData[`${dataPropertyNameDownload}${i}`] = await this.helpers.prepareBinaryData( attachment.content, attachment.filename, attachment.contentType, ); } additionalData.attachments = undefined; } return { json: { ...responseData, ...additionalData }, binary: Object.keys(binaryData).length ? binaryData : undefined, } as INodeExecutionData; } const versionDescription: INodeTypeDescription = { displayName: 'Email Trigger (IMAP)', name: 'emailReadImap', icon: 'fa:inbox', group: ['trigger'], version: 2, description: 'Triggers the workflow when a new email is received', eventTriggerDescription: 'Waiting for you to receive an email', defaults: { name: 'Email Trigger (IMAP)', color: '#44AA22', }, triggerPanel: { header: '', executionsHelp: { inactive: "While building your workflow, click the 'listen' button, then send an email to make an event happen. This will trigger an execution, which will show up in this editor.

Once you're happy with your workflow, activate it. Then every time an email is received, the workflow will execute. These executions will show up in the executions list, but not in the editor.", active: "While building your workflow, click the 'listen' button, then send an email to make an event happen. This will trigger an execution, which will show up in this editor.

Your workflow will also execute automatically, since it's activated. Every time an email is received, this node will trigger an execution. These executions will show up in the executions list, but not in the editor.", }, activationHint: "Once you’ve finished building your workflow, activate it to have it also listen continuously (you just won’t see those executions here).", }, // eslint-disable-next-line n8n-nodes-base/node-class-description-inputs-wrong-regular-node inputs: [], outputs: ['main'], credentials: [ { name: 'imap', required: true, testedBy: 'imapConnectionTest', }, ], properties: [ { displayName: 'Mailbox Name', name: 'mailbox', type: 'string', default: 'INBOX', }, { displayName: 'Action', name: 'postProcessAction', type: 'options', options: [ { name: 'Mark as Read', value: 'read', }, { name: 'Nothing', value: 'nothing', }, ], default: 'read', description: 'What to do after the email has been received. If "nothing" gets selected it will be processed multiple times.', }, { displayName: 'Download Attachments', name: 'downloadAttachments', type: 'boolean', default: false, displayOptions: { show: { format: ['simple'], }, }, description: 'Whether attachments of emails should be downloaded. Only set if needed as it increases processing.', }, { displayName: 'Format', name: 'format', type: 'options', options: [ { name: 'RAW', value: 'raw', description: 'Returns the full email message data with body content in the raw field as a base64url encoded string; the payload field is not used', }, { name: 'Resolved', value: 'resolved', description: 'Returns the full email with all data resolved and attachments saved as binary data', }, { name: 'Simple', value: 'simple', description: 'Returns the full email; do not use if you wish to gather inline attachments', }, ], default: 'simple', description: 'The format to return the message in', }, { displayName: 'Property Prefix Name', name: 'dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName', type: 'string', default: 'attachment_', displayOptions: { show: { format: ['resolved'], }, }, description: 'Prefix for name of the binary property to which to write the attachments. An index starting with 0 will be added. So if name is "attachment_" the first attachment is saved to "attachment_0"', }, { displayName: 'Property Prefix Name', name: 'dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName', type: 'string', default: 'attachment_', displayOptions: { show: { format: ['simple'], downloadAttachments: [true], }, }, description: 'Prefix for name of the binary property to which to write the attachments. An index starting with 0 will be added. So if name is "attachment_" the first attachment is saved to "attachment_0"', }, { displayName: 'Options', name: 'options', type: 'collection', placeholder: 'Add Option', default: {}, options: [ { displayName: 'Custom Email Rules', name: 'customEmailConfig', type: 'string', default: '["UNSEEN"]', description: 'Custom email fetching rules. See node-imap\'s search function for more details.', }, { displayName: 'Force Reconnect Every Minutes', name: 'forceReconnect', type: 'number', default: 60, description: 'Sets an interval (in minutes) to force a reconnection', }, ], }, ], }; export class EmailReadImapV2 implements INodeType { description: INodeTypeDescription; constructor(baseDescription: INodeTypeBaseDescription) { this.description = { ...baseDescription, ...versionDescription, }; } methods = { credentialTest: { async imapConnectionTest( this: ICredentialTestFunctions, credential: ICredentialsDecrypted, ): Promise { if (isCredentialsDataImap(credential.data)) { const credentials = credential.data as ICredentialsDataImap; try { const config: ImapSimpleOptions = { imap: { user: credentials.user, password: credentials.password, host: credentials.host.trim(), port: credentials.port, tls: credentials.secure, authTimeout: 20000, }, }; const tlsOptions: IDataObject = {}; if (credentials.allowUnauthorizedCerts) { tlsOptions.rejectUnauthorized = false; } if (credentials.secure) { tlsOptions.servername = credentials.host.trim(); } if (!isEmpty(tlsOptions)) { config.imap.tlsOptions = tlsOptions; } const connection = await imapConnect(config); await connection.getBoxes(); connection.end(); } catch (error) { return { status: 'Error', message: (error as Error).message, }; } return { status: 'OK', message: 'Connection successful!', }; } else { return { status: 'Error', message: 'Credentials are no IMAP credentials.', }; } }, }, }; async trigger(this: ITriggerFunctions): Promise { const credentialsObject = await this.getCredentials('imap'); const credentials = isCredentialsDataImap(credentialsObject) ? credentialsObject : undefined; if (!credentials) { throw new NodeOperationError(this.getNode(), 'Credentials are not valid for imap node.'); } const mailbox = this.getNodeParameter('mailbox') as string; const postProcessAction = this.getNodeParameter('postProcessAction') as string; const options = this.getNodeParameter('options', {}) as IDataObject; const staticData = this.getWorkflowStaticData('node'); this.logger.debug('Loaded static data for node "EmailReadImap"', { staticData }); let connection: ImapSimple; let closeFunctionWasCalled = false; let isCurrentlyReconnecting = false; // Returns the email text const getText = async (parts: IDataObject[], message: Message, subtype: string) => { if (!message.attributes.struct) { return ''; } const textParts = parts.filter((part) => { return ( (part.type as string).toUpperCase() === 'TEXT' && (part.subtype as string).toUpperCase() === subtype.toUpperCase() ); }); if (textParts.length === 0) { return ''; } try { return (await connection.getPartData(message, textParts[0])) as string; } catch { return ''; } }; // Returns the email attachments const getAttachment = async ( imapConnection: ImapSimple, parts: IDataObject[], message: Message, ): Promise => { if (!message.attributes.struct) { return []; } // Check if the message has attachments and if so get them const attachmentParts = parts.filter((part) => { return ( part.disposition && ((part.disposition as IDataObject)?.type as string).toUpperCase() === 'ATTACHMENT' ); }); const decodeFilename = (filename: string) => { const regex = /=\?([\w-]+)\?Q\?.*\?=/i; if (regex.test(filename)) { return rfc2047.decode(filename); } return filename; }; const attachmentPromises = []; let attachmentPromise; for (const attachmentPart of attachmentParts) { attachmentPromise = imapConnection .getPartData(message, attachmentPart) .then(async (partData) => { // if filename contains utf-8 encoded characters, decode it const fileName = decodeFilename( ((attachmentPart.disposition as IDataObject)?.params as IDataObject) ?.filename as string, ); // Return it in the format n8n expects return await this.helpers.prepareBinaryData(partData as Buffer, fileName); }); attachmentPromises.push(attachmentPromise); } return await Promise.all(attachmentPromises); }; // Returns all the new unseen messages const getNewEmails = async ( imapConnection: ImapSimple, searchCriteria: Array, ): Promise => { const format = this.getNodeParameter('format', 0) as string; let fetchOptions = {}; if (format === 'simple' || format === 'raw') { fetchOptions = { bodies: ['TEXT', 'HEADER'], markSeen: false, struct: true, }; } else if (format === 'resolved') { fetchOptions = { bodies: [''], markSeen: false, struct: true, }; } const results = await imapConnection.search(searchCriteria, fetchOptions); const newEmails: INodeExecutionData[] = []; let newEmail: INodeExecutionData, messageHeader, messageBody; let attachments: IBinaryData[]; let propertyName: string; // All properties get by default moved to metadata except the ones // which are defined here which get set on the top level. const topLevelProperties = ['cc', 'date', 'from', 'subject', 'to']; if (format === 'resolved') { const dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName = this.getNodeParameter( 'dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName', ) as string; for (const message of results) { if ( staticData.lastMessageUid !== undefined && message.attributes.uid <= (staticData.lastMessageUid as number) ) { continue; } if ( staticData.lastMessageUid === undefined || (staticData.lastMessageUid as number) < message.attributes.uid ) { staticData.lastMessageUid = message.attributes.uid; } const part = find(message.parts, { which: '' }); if (part === undefined) { throw new NodeOperationError(this.getNode(), 'Email part could not be parsed.'); } const parsedEmail = await parseRawEmail.call( this, part.body as Buffer, dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName, ); newEmails.push(parsedEmail); } } else if (format === 'simple') { const downloadAttachments = this.getNodeParameter('downloadAttachments') as boolean; let dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName = ''; if (downloadAttachments) { dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName = this.getNodeParameter( 'dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName', ) as string; } for (const message of results) { if ( staticData.lastMessageUid !== undefined && message.attributes.uid <= (staticData.lastMessageUid as number) ) { continue; } if ( staticData.lastMessageUid === undefined || (staticData.lastMessageUid as number) < message.attributes.uid ) { staticData.lastMessageUid = message.attributes.uid; } const parts = getParts(message.attributes.struct as IDataObject[]) as IDataObject[]; newEmail = { json: { textHtml: await getText(parts, message, 'html'), textPlain: await getText(parts, message, 'plain'), metadata: {} as IDataObject, }, }; messageHeader = message.parts.filter((part) => { return part.which === 'HEADER'; }); messageBody = messageHeader[0].body as IDataObject; for (propertyName of Object.keys(messageBody)) { if ((messageBody[propertyName] as IDataObject[]).length) { if (topLevelProperties.includes(propertyName)) { newEmail.json[propertyName] = (messageBody[propertyName] as string[])[0]; } else { (newEmail.json.metadata as IDataObject)[propertyName] = ( messageBody[propertyName] as string[] )[0]; } } } if (downloadAttachments) { // Get attachments and add them if any get found attachments = await getAttachment(imapConnection, parts, message); if (attachments.length) { newEmail.binary = {}; for (let i = 0; i < attachments.length; i++) { newEmail.binary[`${dataPropertyAttachmentsPrefixName}${i}`] = attachments[i]; } } } newEmails.push(newEmail); } } else if (format === 'raw') { for (const message of results) { if ( staticData.lastMessageUid !== undefined && message.attributes.uid <= (staticData.lastMessageUid as number) ) { continue; } if ( staticData.lastMessageUid === undefined || (staticData.lastMessageUid as number) < message.attributes.uid ) { staticData.lastMessageUid = message.attributes.uid; } const part = find(message.parts, { which: 'TEXT' }); if (part === undefined) { throw new NodeOperationError(this.getNode(), 'Email part could not be parsed.'); } // Return base64 string newEmail = { json: { raw: part.body as string, }, }; newEmails.push(newEmail); } } // only mark messages as seen once processing has finished if (postProcessAction === 'read') { const uidList = results.map((e) => e.attributes.uid); if (uidList.length > 0) { await imapConnection.addFlags(uidList, '\\SEEN'); } } return newEmails; }; const returnedPromise = await this.helpers.createDeferredPromise(); const establishConnection = async (): Promise => { let searchCriteria = ['UNSEEN'] as Array; if (options.customEmailConfig !== undefined) { try { searchCriteria = JSON.parse(options.customEmailConfig as string) as Array< string | string[] >; } catch (error) { throw new NodeOperationError(this.getNode(), 'Custom email config is not valid JSON.'); } } const config: ImapSimpleOptions = { imap: { user: credentials.user, password: credentials.password, host: credentials.host.trim(), port: credentials.port, tls: credentials.secure, authTimeout: 20000, }, onmail: async () => { if (connection) { if (staticData.lastMessageUid !== undefined) { searchCriteria.push(['UID', `${staticData.lastMessageUid as number}:*`]); /** * A short explanation about UIDs and how they work * can be found here: https://dev.to/kehers/imap-new-messages-since-last-check-44gm * TL;DR: * - You cannot filter using ['UID', 'CURRENT ID + 1:*'] because IMAP * won't return correct results if current id + 1 does not yet exist. * - UIDs can change but this is not being treated here. * If the mailbox is recreated (lets say you remove all emails, remove * the mail box and create another with same name, UIDs will change) * - You can check if UIDs changed in the above example * by checking UIDValidity. */ this.logger.debug('Querying for new messages on node "EmailReadImap"', { searchCriteria, }); } try { const returnData = await getNewEmails(connection, searchCriteria); if (returnData.length) { this.emit([returnData]); } } catch (error) { this.logger.error('Email Read Imap node encountered an error fetching new emails', { error: error as Error, }); // Wait with resolving till the returnedPromise got resolved, else n8n will be unhappy // if it receives an error before the workflow got activated await returnedPromise.promise().then(() => { this.emitError(error as Error); }); } } }, onupdate: async (seqno: number, info) => { this.logger.verbose(`Email Read Imap:update ${seqno}`, info as IDataObject); }, }; const tlsOptions: IDataObject = {}; if (credentials.allowUnauthorizedCerts) { tlsOptions.rejectUnauthorized = false; } if (credentials.secure) { tlsOptions.servername = credentials.host.trim(); } if (!isEmpty(tlsOptions)) { config.imap.tlsOptions = tlsOptions; } // Connect to the IMAP server and open the mailbox // that we get informed whenever a new email arrives return await imapConnect(config).then(async (conn) => { conn.on('close', async (_hadError: boolean) => { if (isCurrentlyReconnecting) { this.logger.debug('Email Read Imap: Connected closed for forced reconnecting'); } else if (closeFunctionWasCalled) { this.logger.debug('Email Read Imap: Shutting down workflow - connected closed'); } else { this.logger.error('Email Read Imap: Connected closed unexpectedly'); this.emitError(new Error('Imap connection closed unexpectedly')); } }); conn.on('error', async (error) => { const errorCode = ((error as JsonObject).code as string).toUpperCase(); this.logger.verbose(`IMAP connection experienced an error: (${errorCode})`, { error: error as Error, }); // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-use-before-define await closeFunction(); this.emitError(error as Error); }); return conn; }); }; connection = await establishConnection(); await connection.openBox(mailbox); let reconnectionInterval: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined; const handleReconnect = async () => { this.logger.verbose('Forcing reconnect to IMAP server'); try { isCurrentlyReconnecting = true; if (connection.closeBox) await connection.closeBox(false); connection.end(); connection = await establishConnection(); await connection.openBox(mailbox); } catch (error) { this.logger.error(error as string); } finally { isCurrentlyReconnecting = false; } }; if (options.forceReconnect !== undefined) { reconnectionInterval = setInterval( handleReconnect, (options.forceReconnect as number) * 1000 * 60, ); } // When workflow and so node gets set to inactive close the connection async function closeFunction() { closeFunctionWasCalled = true; if (reconnectionInterval) { clearInterval(reconnectionInterval); } if (connection.closeBox) await connection.closeBox(false); connection.end(); } // Resolve returned-promise so that waiting errors can be emitted returnedPromise.resolve(); return { closeFunction, }; } }