Just found this list. Here is a repost of a question I sent to
Debian-Users list a few days ago.
I've searched the archives here and see a few hints of what people are
doing with metamail/procmail combos but nothing really specific.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Gerald
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 02:55:21 -0600
From: Gerald Livingston <debuser(_at_)sysmatrix(_dot_)net>
To: debuser <debian-user(_at_)lists(_dot_)debian(_dot_)org>
Subject: [OT] Procmail/metamail assistance
OK, my eyes are burning from googling and reading man pages. I'd like to
do the following:
When a message comes in with an image attachment I would like that image
saved to a file in a specific directory. I would also like any message
body text saved to a file, and the original sender's name to another
file.
I've been playing with metamail for saving the pieces but I can't figure
out how to save all the parts but I can't figure out how to make it not
require user input.
So far I can get the files saved to the current directory with the
filenames encoded in the mime parts. The body wants to go to a file in
/tmp by default but the binary attachments are saved with the encoded
filenames to the CWD.
What I'm trying to do is let friends/family with no web space (or who
are too computer illiterate to put an image on the web) send me images
as attachments. I will have a specific email address set up for this so
procmail will process ALL messages to that address as if the contain
image attachments. When the message arrives I want all the parts listed
above saved to a specific directory. I will then run a bash script over
them to rename the image files to
"sender_name_mmddyyyy_hhmmss.[jpg|gif]". The senders will be informed
that .bmp files will be deleted, they can download irfanview for
Winboxen and save as .jpg because I don't feel like adding convert to
the mix.
Once the renaming is done the script will ftp the files to a specified
web directory and create an email back to the originator and/or other
specified address with links to the pictures.
Right now I'm working on getting the attachments saved without my
intervention. I haven't even started on the procmail recipe yet (except
to move messages to that specific address into a new folder). I already
have a bash script that wgets images on a regular basis and renames them
with date/time so I have a base to work from on that. Somewhere I have a
snippet I used to use for auto-updating a web page via ftp.
Thanks in advance for any pointers,
G
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