I thought this would be simple, but I've been at it for hours and don't understand. I wanted procmail to pipe new emails to uudeview and automatically decode jpg attachments to a folder.

It ALMOST works, except it will only decode the second-to-last email, after a new one comes in. Example: I send myself a test image, nothing, the second i send another image, the FIRST one decodes, and the new one doesn't, until i send another one, and so forth.

Any idea what could be causing this? On a side note, though less crucial, It seems to decode ALL previous emails again and again, because the timestamps keep becoming the same. The ultimate goal is the newest jpg emailed will update on an apache webserver.

~/.procmailrc

It seems like it's something with the action pipe, if I'm just forwarding to another email with:
It will send it to junkmail everytime, but the action pipe takes 2 emails to process the last one.

Still couldn't figure it out. Here's the work around I used in case anybody is curious:

-I have procmail putting everything from a specific email into "attach" just like the previous post with "junkmail"
-I have a cronjob that runs the following bash script every minute, looking to see if "attach" exists, if so continues the script:

Not the prettiest solution in the world, but it works like I need it to!