[ILUG] Automatic mail

[Liam Bedford]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:20:52AM +0000, Niall O Broin came forth with:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:36:47AM +0000, Gerard J Keating wrote:
> 
> > hopefully someone can give me some pointers.
> 
> Pointers, yes, but not a full answer, but only because I've never done
> exactly what you want - I know that what I tell you below will do the job.
> 
> > I have a file arriving daily to a email address on my linux server with a file
> > attachment. What i want to do is have the attached file coping to a certian
> > directory when the email arrives, how would i do this. Also want to run a
> > program to process this file.
> 
> The tools for the job are mimencode, and possibly procmail. You need to pipe
> the incoming mail through mimencode -u which will decode the message i.e.
> remove the attachment. A little reading of the man page and experimentation
> will sort that out for you, and of course it's a trivial matter then to put
> the resultant file into whatever directory you need.
> 
you could have a look at how aMaViS does the job.. it basically does what
you want to do, and runs a virus scanner on the file..

it's on sourceforge (amavis.sourceforge.net?)

L.
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