How to Modify Message and add more Attachments

[Marc Roos]

I have clients that process personal data and they even need to have 
'special' processing agreements with companies like wetransfer and 
outlook.com. I had to sign also such agreement and prepare a vm for 
hot/cold data encryption for processing personal data. If someone leaves 
a voice mail message, he does not expect that this is going to be send 
to a third party. I think this expectation causes the gdpr 'by default' 
highest privacy/security of personal data protection to be applicable. 
Lots of companies are being fined currently for breaching gdpr, small, 
large, international even nation governmental organisations. Better 
check this.




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Subject: RE: How to Modify Message and add more Attachments


Can you elaborate on the concern? 

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From: Marc Roos <M.Roos at f1-outsourcing.eu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:17 PM
To: dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>; Mrinal Sharma 
<msharma at smithmicro.com>
Subject: RE: How to Modify Message and add more Attachments

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If are processing Europeans voice mail you have to check if that is even 
allowed, could be a problem with GDPR legislation.



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Subject: RE: How to Modify Message and add more Attachments

Thanks, am planning to use Google's Speech-to-Text.

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Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 3:39 PM
To: dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>; Mrinal Sharma 
<msharma at smithmicro.com>
Subject: RE: How to Modify Message and add more Attachments

CAUTION - EXTERNAL EMAIL This email originated from outside of Smith 
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Hmmm, that does not sound nice storing files as email. Maybe use 
document database? Look at this[1], see if it is possible to use the 
rados plugin to store files directly as objects?

What are you using for speech to text?

[1]
https://github.com/ceph-dovecot/dovecot-ceph-plugin




-----Original Message-----
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: How to Modify Message and add more Attachments

Hello Everyone,



I am working on a product in which we are planning to store voice 
messages in Dovecot sent by a user to another user. The message would be 
stored as an email with .wav attachment. Once the Voice message is 
received, it may get Transcribed. The message can be further be 
processed and more information can be added to the message later. The 
original plan was to Modify the email and add New information as 
attachments to same message.



As I understood, messages stored in Dovecot are immutable. What is the 
best option to achieve this functionality?



Thanks,

Mrinal