can you strip attachments to a folder

[Greg Borders]

Kathryn Allan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Have had a request to do this and was wondering if it is even possible.
>
> Can I set mailscanner up so that any emails from a specific address - 
> if they have an attachment, the attachment gets stripped and dumped in 
> a specific folder?
>
> Thanks
> Kate
I've used a pair of tools to extract attachments after delivery.
http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/
http://www.procmail.org/

Use procmail and a create a recipe that pipes a copy of the delivered 
mail to ripmime.

ripmime will extract the attachment to a specified folder.  You can then 
use a script/cron job to detect the presence of the newly created 
attachment, and fire off your other program that needs it.

Greg.




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