well if you use procmail, you have to re-send all the existing MBOX-formatted mails thru the procmail pipeline. it's in-elegant. :P but admittedly easier than downloading a ton of CPAN modules just to get my script working.
On 8/2/05, Mhac Janapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds a promising horizon, procmail. :) > > On 8/2/05, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mhac Janapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Sure I can go and extract them one by one and save it to folder, but I > > > think a bash script (even python) would be nice. Especially if I would > > > have more of these messages with attachments. > > > > An `apt-cache search attachments` turned up this: > > > > pdftk - A useful tool for manipulating PDF documents > > > > But I think that doesn't answer your question. I believe it is helpful, > > though, since you say you're working with a lot of PDFs. > > > > I think you could also use procmail(1) to scan for PDF attachments and > > parse the data so you get rfc822s in one folder and the PDFs in another, > > with their original file names preserved (and possibly coded to prevent > > duplicates.) See procmailrc(5) for some inspiration. > > > > -- > > ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> > > 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 > > 851D > > -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred. > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > -- > Mhac Janapin > PBTS SysAd > www.pbts.net.ph > ============= > http://mulingsilang.blogspot.com > ============= > I'm an Open Source Enthusiast. c",) > Mozilla Firefox 1 - getfirefox.com > Mozilla Thunderbird 1 - mozilla.org > OpenOffice.org 1 > ============= > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
