Re: howto autosave email attachments?

[Bob Vloon <bobv@bananacorp.nl>]

Hi Johannes,

"metamail" is your friend.. You'll have to script a bit, though, but it
'll do the main trick :)

> We have a shiny new printer/copier/scanner. It sends scanned pages as 
> email attachments. Instead of manually selecting individual email 
> adresses on the cumbersome telephone-like local keyboard, it would be 
> handy to mail all of them to the same e-mail address and have the 
> attachments automatically extracted and saved on a network share of the 
> email server.
> 
> The idea is to have a special user 'scanner'. All email attachments of 
> any mail to this user are saved to /folder/for/scans and email deleted.
> 
> How would this be done?
> 
> Debian sarge.