How to dump emails to files?
 

Hello! I'm trying to come up with a script to extract data from emails. I have many servers in different cities emailing stats to a server at home office. Now I need a script to sort each mail by cities and dump data to separate files. My initial approach is to run a script to process /var/mail/mystat. "mystat" being the unique account setup just for this purpose. Using bunch of shell commands in a script, I am trying to generate separate files. What I am wondering is...Is there a more elegant way to do this? Or is this the pretty much the only approach one can take? Thanks for yoru time!

A better approach is probably to set up a mail alias to a script that will parse each email as it arrives and then does what you want with the data that is parsed.

HTH

Forrest

You could either use Maildir format in which each message is a separate file, or at lease use a mbox to maildir converter to convert the mbox file into separate files as the first step in your procerssing