Saving attachments from mail 1

[mfreeze]

Does anyone know how I could automatically save attachments from a certain email account into a directory automatically? For example: I receive multiple files per day in emails at 'bill@test.com'. I want to have a script that will take attachments from any email received thru 'bill' and save them in to the 'var/bill/files' directory automatically, without any user interaction. Any advice? Or maybe a script to share ;>

Regards,
Mark.

 

[ericbrunson]

You could use procmail to pipe the mail to a filter program that would look for an attachment and if it exists, save it. What you write the filter in is up to you. Try looking at

http://www.methods.co.nz/python/mailextract.py