Adam Galant wrote:
> > > I need a script to extract all attachments from emails and do an
> > > action an each of them (scp to a different machine). How to do
> > > this?
> Yes, messages come directly from MTA. I know procmail is my friend here
> ;-) but I still don't know how to handle attachments here. A quick recipee
> will be of great help.
As it happens I was needing to do something along those lines myself
just recently. (Running scripts on spam messages quarantined as a
MIME attachment.)
apt-cache show mpack
munpack -t < /tmp/message
munpack: reading from standard input
part1 (text/plain)
part2 (text/html)
In a script you probably want -q to keep the noise down and possibly
-C to work in a temporary directory. Something like this should get
you going. This is UNTESTED! And too terse for general use.
#!/bin/sh
trap 'rm -rf $TMPDIR' 0
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d -t yourscriptname.XXXXXXXXXX) || exit 1
munpack -q -t -C $TMPDIR || exit 1
for file in $TMPDIR/*; do
: some action on $file
done
exit 0
Bob
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