Betr.: Re: misuse MailScanner

[Amelein at dantumadeel.nl]

>>> Op 9-4-2008 om  3:47  is in bericht <47FCC8F1.9020406 at meta.net> door Michael
Weis <wm at meta.net> geschreven:

> 
> Glenn Steen schrieb:
>> On 08/04/2008, Michael Weis <wm at meta.net> wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>  we are planing to create an email-account to which
>>>  only mails with attachments will be send.
>>>
>>>  I have the job to extract this attachments from
>>>  the mail and handle them
>>>  (save, print, archive)
>>>
>>>  So far so good, but I have no idea
>>>  how to get the attachments to a disk.
>>>
>>>  I know mailscanner does this while scanning
>>>  for viruses (right?).
>>>
>>>  So how can I tell mailscanner to just save
>>>  attachments from a certain user's emails ?
>>>  (no problem if they were scanned before)
>>>
>>>  I searched the mailing-list-archive
>>>  but it seemed that nobody has to do this
>>>  before.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> You can use numerous tools and do this at several "levels"... Since
>> the non-spam quarantine wouldn't contain the "decoded" attachment, you
>> can't use that (a simple "store" for that user in a ruleset on Non
>> Spam Actions), but rather would have to do something else ... a
>> CustomFunction or perhaps the spiffy SpamAssassin rule actions... But
>> simplest would perhaps be to use procmail at delivery and/or some tool
>> like mmdecode/metamail or whatnot.
>> Been a few years (... like ... 10...:-) since last I needed do
>> anything like that... might be easier now:-).
>>
>> Cheers
>>   
> 
> Thanks for this quick reply Glenn,
> 
> at first I want to apologize for my first mail,
> it has not a good subject; should be "let MailScanner save attachments" 
> or so
> 
> second I haven't told what I have done so far
> well:
> I configured fetchmail to fetch the mail from the account :-)
> next I configured procmail to process the mail with a python-
> script I downloaded from the internet.
> This script should extract the attachment from the mail.
> But the script has an error.
> 
> I have to say that I'm just a "copy'n'past" programmer in python,
> so it was not possible for me to eleminate the error in the python-script
> 
> So that took me over a day (procmail-receipts are awful).
> I had the idea to use MailScanner for the job after giving up on the 
> procmail-way.
> 
> MailScanner idea:
> All mail-attachments going to a certain user are stored in the 
> quaratine-directory.
> To realize that MailScanner "just" has to not-delete the scanned messages.
> 
> Is this a possible way?
> 
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Michael

You could put a ruleset in the 'Non Spam Actions' to store anything for that certain address I think.
Either that or try with archiving rules.

-
Arjan




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