Procmail and storing attachments.

shankariyer · 01-05-2009, 05:55 PM

Hi,

My request may be opposite to how people typically use 'procmail'.

My mail server has pop access using SSL. I'd like to sniff any incoming
and save those attachments ( CSV's, XLS, XLSX ) in a separate
directory. I do not care much about the mail that was sent, except
that I don't want to delete it.

I've the fetchmail part setup, but am looking for an apt procmailrc.
Please advice.

Thanks.

shankariyer · 01-06-2009, 11:54 AM

I moved little ahead on this... My procmailrc looks like this

Code:

$ cat .procmailrc 
LOGFILE=~/proc.log
:0H
| ~/check.pl

I'm not completely sure of the code above, but I'm trying to achieve the following
1. Look for a mail, which has CSV attachment, if found direct it ~/csv_files
2. Look for a mail, which has XLS, XLSX attachment, if found direct it ~/xl_files

While doing that, I'd like also like to preserve the attachment name, as I'd suffix it with date-time stamp before moving it to the respective directory.

I'm new to procmail, please advice or give me some sample code.

Thanks.