[ale] How do you auto extract attachments from email?

[James P. Kinney III]

I don't the explicit answer to your question as I have only used perl to
send emails automatically, but, in short, perl.

There are several perl-mods that deal with mail handling. I believe the
Mail-MboxParser module can extract mail from an account, and then parse
it for various components including attachments. At that point it simple
to do whatever you need.
http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/by-category/19_Mail_and_Usenet_News/Mail/

On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 19:02, Gary MacKay wrote:
> I need some advice on where to find how-to's and docs. I'd like to
> automate some data processing. I have comma delimited files getting
> emailed to me and I have to manually save the attachment somewhere then
> run my program and click 'import', etc. etc. Is there any way to have a
> script 'catch' email to a certain account, extract the attachment and
> drop it in a directory somewhere? My program could then monitor that
> directory and auto import it.
> 
> - Gary
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