@Matt/Alan, Let me know if you would like a test account on the same Sendmail/Dovecot server that I'm pulling these messages down from.

As I mentioned before, these are "feedback loop" emails from ISPs like AOL, Yahoo and RR - who all use a pretty similar standard. Each email from their postmaster has an attachment, which is our original message (the one that caused the recipient to press their spam button). We need to read the X- header in that attached message in order to delete the user and maintain our compliance status.

Al

On 1/22/2011 2:30 PM, Matthew Woodward wrote:
I will give this a shot tomorrow. Just need to figure out a POP account I can mess with. ;-) I guess you can turn on POP access in gmail?

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote:
 Perhaps I should bump this thread by way of a simple question:
Is anyone out there successfully using the OpenBD tag CFPOP to retrieve email w/attachments?
Thanks!
Al


On 1/13/2011 11:55 AM, Alan Holden wrote:
BACKGROUND:
Traditional ACF behavior for CFPOP is to read a user's email into a "query" object, with each row being a message. Email attachments are saved off into individual files ONLY IF you provide an "attachmentpath" attribute. Because the same path is used by all attachments, the "generateUniqueFilenames" attribute prevents file overwrites.
CFPOP places one comma delimited list (tab delimited as of CF8) of attachment file names per message into an "attachments" column of the query. There's also a similar "attachmentfiles" column, but with the expanded path of each file. If generateUniqueFilenames was false, then CFPOP would just use the file's native name - otherwise CFPOP would use a unique name and the file's native suffix.

PROBLEM:
OpenBD's CFPOP seems to respect the "attachmentpath" attribute, but not the "generateUniqueFilenames" attribute. All the attachments of a single message are saved under the extension-less name "unknownfile", and subsequently overwritten by each attachment & message retrieved, leaving one with a single file of unknown type in the attachmentpath after retrieving multiple messages with attachments.

ENVIRONMENT:
This issue is observed when retrieving emails from a Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server that were originally sent by AOL's feedback loop system. The MTA is SendMail.
This is version 1.4a (2010-08-07 01:00:38 GMT)
Linux i386 (2.6.24-19-server) Apache Tomcat/6.0.20
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