Re: Integrating Oauth2 with Solr MailEntityProcessor

[Dileepa Jayakody <di...@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

Anybody interested in this feature for Solr MailEntityProcessor?
WDYT?

Thanks,
Dileepa


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Dileepa Jayakody <
dileepajayakody@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I think Oauth2 integration is a valid usecase for Solr when it comes to
> importing data from user-accounts like email, social-networks, enterprise
> stores etc.
> Do you think Oauth2 integration in Solr will be an useful feature? If so I
> would like to start working on this.
> I feel this could also be a good project for GSoC 2014.
>
> Thanks,
> Dileepa
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Dileepa Jayakody <
> dileepajayakody@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm doing a research project on : Email Reputation Analysis and for this
>> project I'm planning to use Apache Solr, Tika and Mahout projects to
>> analyse, store and query reputation of emails and correspondents.
>>
>> For indexing emails in Solr I'm going to use the MailEntityProcessor [1].
>> But I see that it requires the user to provide their email credentials to
>> the DIH which is a security risk. Also I feel current MailEntityProcessor
>> doesn't allow importing data from multiple mail boxes.
>>
>> What do you think of integrating an authorization mechanism like OAuth2
>> in Solr?
>> Appreciate your ideas on using this for indexing multiple mailboxes
>> without requiring users to give their username passwords.
>>
>> <document>   <entity processor="MailEntityProcessor"                user="somebody@gmail.com"            password="something"            host="imap.gmail.com"            protocol="imaps"           folders = "x,y,z"/></document>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dileepa
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/solr/MailEntityProcessor
>>
>
>