Re: howto autosave email attachments?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I bet both procmail and maildrop can do this. But couldn't tell how.
Maildrop should be easier that procmail, but I failed to set up a simple
filter for list mail.

Good luck
Andrei