Parse Inbound Email - Building SaaS with Python and Django
In this episode, we switched to the inbound side and parsed an email to transform it into a journal entry. This caused us to look into the dateutil library and look at Python's standard email module to use EmailMessage.
0:00 - Introduction
3:12 - Parse inbound data
29:06 - Parse out entry date from subject
1:00:00 - Parse account out of email address
1:17:12 - Testing the error conditions
1:42:45 - Deploy and do end to end testing
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