automating attachment processing

[eanda10]

I am running qmail on a RH 8.0 server and I am looking for a way that when emails come into a particular email account the files get seperated and dumped into a directory so I can then program my db to process that file.


Thank you

 

[aixmurderer]

Look at a perl script called unmime, it does the job for me:

http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/rules/mailagent/example/sbin/unmime

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[aixmurderer]

Further to the above you will need to make an entry in the aliases file as well so as to pass the email on to the script, sample below:

test: |"/usr/local/bin/unmime"

Another option is to use munpack (part of the mpack package), an aliases entry like this should do it for you:

test1: |"/usr/local/bin/munpack -C /var/tmp/MIME"

The paths are as I use it, you may have to change to suit your application and installation.

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