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hvis en rute ikke står i openapi.yaml, og den fangede mig fire gange i går.
Brugervejledningen har ikke fulgt med, og det er den, folk læser.

Nyt: en side om beskeder — hvad der udløser en, hvorfor gentagne
rettelser bliver slået sammen, push pr. apparat og mærket på ikonet. En
om at åbne links i en anden browser, som mest af alt handler om, hvad en
webside ikke kan: hverken se hvilke browsere der findes eller vælge
mellem dem. Og en om tællingen af installationer, som ikke stod nogen
steder overhovedet — en melding, der er slået til som udgangspunkt, har
en pligt til at være skrevet ned, også når ingen har spurgt.

Rettet: AI-siden beskrev to funktioner, hvor der nu er syv, og
listen over hvad der sendes hvorhen var derfor forkert som en påstand om
noget privat. Noter-siden manglede deling med en e-mailadresse og hvad
`@Sofie` gør. Mail-siden manglede den anden vej ind i indbakken.
Konfigurationen sagde stadig, at versionstjekket kun kunne se efter.

Og tagbeskeden når nu frem. Den ER annonceringen — skrevet på produktets
eget sprog til dem, der bruger det — og udgivelsen på GitHub blev fyldt
med en autogenereret liste over commit-overskrifter i stedet, som er
skrevet til dem, der læser koden. Nu står teksten øverst og listen under
den. Linjen med linket til udgivelsen selv tages af: en side, der linker
til sig selv, hjælper ingen.

Dokumentationen bygges nu også på en PR. `mkdocs build --strict` fejler
på et link til en side, der ikke findes, og at bygge først efter merge er
at få det at vide på main.

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2026-09-09 08:52:54 +02:00

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# Mail to task
Forward an email and it becomes a task.
## Your address
**Settings → Mail to task** gives you something like:
```
todo+kJ8xN2pQ...@example.dk
```
The token is in the local part rather than the domain, which is what lets a single
mail alias route it without a wildcard domain or a DNS change per person.
## Using it
Forward anything to it. The **subject becomes the task** and the **body becomes the
description**.
The subject goes through the same [quick-add parser](quick-add.md) as everything
else, so this works:
> **Subject:** Send årsregnskab i morgen p1 #Firma
and arrives as a task called *Send årsregnskab*, due tomorrow, priority 1, in
Firma.
## Routing the mail
verdande does not run a mail server. Something has to hand it the message.
=== "Mailcow"
Make an alias for `todo+*@yourdomain` that pipes to a small script, and have
the script POST the parsed message to:
```
POST https://todo.example.dk/inbound/mail
Content-Type: application/json
{
"to": "todo+TOKEN@example.dk",
"from": "afsender@example.dk",
"subject": "Send årsregnskab i morgen p1 #Firma",
"body": "Vedhæftet er sidste års tal."
}
```
=== "Anything else"
The endpoint takes that JSON from anywhere — a Postfix pipe, a Cloudflare Email
Worker, an IMAP poller. The token in `to` is the whole credential, so no other
authentication is needed and none is accepted.
## Security
The token *is* the credential — anybody who can send mail to that address can
create tasks in your account. It cannot read anything, and it cannot reach anything
else.
An unknown token and a malformed address answer identically, so the endpoint cannot
be used to work out which addresses are live.
**Settings → Mail to task → Rotate** issues a new address and stops the old one
immediately.
!!! tip "Keep the address to yourself"
Treat it like a secret. If you publish it somewhere, rotate it.
## Pushing from another program
The address above needs a mail server. When what you want is a shortcut on your
phone, a script, or any service that can call a URL, there is a second way in:
**Settings → Integrationer → Skub fra andre programmer** gives you an address to
POST a line of text to.
```bash
curl -X POST https://todo.example.dk/inbound/hook/<token> \
-H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
-d "Ring til Anders i morgen p1 #Firma"
```
The body is read three ways, because those are the three you meet: plain text from
a shortcut that just sends what was selected, JSON with a `text` field from a
service, or a form field from a webhook form. The first line becomes the task and
the rest sits underneath it, and the line goes through the [quick add](quick-add.md)
parser — so "i morgen", "p1" and "#Firma" mean here what they mean in the box at the
top of the app.
**The address is a key.** It has its own token rather than sharing the mail one:
the two are the same kind of secret but they leak separately, and a URL that has
been sitting in a shortcut on a lost phone has to be replaceable without changing
the address other people have in their address books. A token here can do one
thing — put a task in your inbox — which is why it is not an
[API token](api.md), which can do everything. Change it under the same setting; the
old one stops working at once.
**POST only.** A GET would be easier to call, and that is exactly the problem: a
browser prefetch, a link check in a chat, and a revisited history entry would all
create tasks nobody asked for.