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Re: Storing attachments using procmail

2006-11-29 13:31:27
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
I've googled for this with no success so I wonder if it's even
posible.

I am trying to make procmail store in a given directory all binary
attachments with given extensions in incoming mail. Let's say all .doc
and .pdf files.

Is this posible, any ideas?

For specific messages, I use uudeview to detach all attachments to a 
specific directory.... once you have the attachments you can do what you 
want with them.

To see if the mail even has attachments you need to look at the 
Content-Type: header... if that header indicates there are attachments, 
you can look in the body of the message for the individual attachments 
you are interested in... I suspect this is more prone to error unless 
you really make the effort to know that you are parsing the correct 
Content-Type "header within the body, and not just some discussion about
Content-Type: blah blah blah

uudeview can do all the heavy lifting for you, at the expense of 
possibly detaching files you don't need detached... but for the 
simplicity it offers, I think it is a good trade-off.

Don Russell

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