Fetch the Attachments from Google Inbox to harddisk?

Xeratul · 04-01-2012, 11:42 AM

CLI / Bash command line:

Hi, I would like to with bash to retrieve only the attachments into Google Inbox (IMAP) (without deleting the mails into the google box server), for retrieving them into a folder ~/Mail/googleattachements

Would you know if it could be possible?
- fetchmail does not do that (direclty since it get the full email and not its attachment)

I googled a lot and could not find the solution. Maybe another program could do this or even fetchmail if some howto may be found?

thanks for hints

unSpawn · 04-02-2012, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xeratul

I would like to with bash to retrieve only the attachments into Google Inbox (IMAP)

See How can I download IMAP mail attachments over SSL and save them locally using Perl? or Use tmail and IMAP to save attachments (uses Ruby) or look for any IMAP copying tool that has filtering rules like imap-wrangler. With the latter an XML config like

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE filters SYSTEM "filters.dtd">
<filters version="0">
 <filter match="any" name="copy_attachments">
  <cond header="content-type" case="no" op="contains">multipart</cond>
   <copy>googleattachements</copy>
 </filter>
</filters>

way (or may not) work.

Xeratul · 04-04-2012, 01:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

See How can I download IMAP mail attachments over SSL and save them locally using Perl? or Use tmail and IMAP to save attachments (uses Ruby) or look for any IMAP copying tool that has filtering rules like imap-wrangler. With the latter an XML config like

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE filters SYSTEM "filters.dtd">
<filters version="0">
 <filter match="any" name="copy_attachments">
  <cond header="content-type" case="no" op="contains">multipart</cond>
   <copy>googleattachements</copy>
 </filter>
</filters>

way (or may not) work.

wow. sounds cool. I will look at this this weekend . thank you Unspawn

unSpawn · 05-05-2012, 07:47 AM

...that was a month ago. Remember LQ exists to help you and others. Correcting errors, sharing experiences, posting solutions and marking the thread solved will benefit others that find the thread later on. So please update this thread RSN, TIA.

Xeratul · 05-06-2012, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

...that was a month ago. Remember LQ exists to help you and others. Correcting errors, sharing experiences, posting solutions and marking the thread solved will benefit others that find the thread later on. So please update this thread RSN, TIA.

Hi Unspawn,

I have not forgotten you, surely not. I have time to time huge amount of work. I have not found yet sufficiently time to experience it.

I am looking very forward to working on this issue, and I will surely inform you how to make it. The procedure does not look so easy, so it requires me some time.

I would be glad to : fetch them simply with my imap google account, and then do ( I received audio msg from my colleague in US for work)

and then to aplay "$i.wav" all of them to listen what work I shall do.

It saves me lot of time, audio wavs