OT: Use of MailScanner code for extracting attachments

[Julian Field]

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There is a function "Explode" which does all the attachment  
extraction. You should be able to do what you want with a Custom  
Function attached to the "Always Looked Up Last" configuration  
option. See /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm and the  
contents of the CustomFunctions directory (in the same place).
You will have attachments expanded out in the /var/spool/MailScanner/ 
incoming/<pid>/<message-id>/ directory.

On 4 Jan 2006, at 12:36, Jim Holland wrote:

> Hi Julian
>
> Happy New Year to you, and thanks once more for your most  
> appreciated work.
>
> We here in Zimbabwe are still offering FidoNet protocols to around  
> 2500 of
> our users.  Our Fido server delivers files in binary form to our users
> separately from the actual messages.  We currently use a Perl  
> script to
> handle attachments, and it in turn calls metamail for the actual MIME
> decoding.  This is not very elegant or reliable, and I am looking  
> for a
> better way of decoding attachments - such as that used by MailScanner.
> It is a shame to see all the work that MailScanner does to decode  
> messages
> only for us to then have to go through that process all over again  
> before
> we can deliver the attachments to our Fido users.
>
> Sadly I am not a Perl expert - just a hacker who can develop  
> scripts at a
> far lower level of complexity - so I find your code beyond my
> understanding.  However if you were able to simply point me in the  
> right
> direction - eg which packages are needed, where is the point of entry
> where a message is passed to those packages, and any other brief
> suggestions - I should be able to take it from there with a little  
> help
> from another Perl enthusiast here.
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Jim Holland
> System Administrator
> MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
>
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