2009/9/21 Alan Hodgson <ahodg...@simkin.ca> > On Sunday 20 September 2009, "CSB" <kj...@xnet.co.nz> wrote: > > We wish to do the following: > > 1. receive an email with an attachment > > 2. process the email body to get some information from it > > 3. send an outbound email to an email address based on the information > > derived from step 2. The email will include the attachment received in > > step 1 > > > > I'm not sure where to start with this one so any suggestions would be > > appreciated. > > If it's a minor amount of processing, you can just pipe it to a script from > procmail or even straight from the MTA. I don't really like that mechanism > though - too prone to produce bounces in the case of long processing times > or errors. It's better to dump them in a Maildir and use it as a queue for > a polling script. > > Perl in particular has a bunch of libraries available to correctly parse > MIME messages and extract addresses and attachments and stuff. Don't write > your own parser. >
talkin' about perl, i remember once i used something called milter for things like this . > > -- > "No animals were harmed in the recording of this episode. We tried but that > damn monkey was just too fast." > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Linux counter #213090
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