Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-19 Thread Thomas Bennett
you might want to look at the email2trac plugin for the Trac product. It parses emails into a database. I suspect it is written in python so you might be able to form your own python script based on that script. Thomas Support Request

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote: Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here... I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as email attachments. I want to go from csv MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff with the data. The thing is,

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Cary Gordon
The securely part is a gotcha. I would venture a guess that whatever the gadget does to produce emails doesn't include encryption or key verification. Cary On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote: Maybe

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Gary McGath
On 10/17/12 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote: Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here... I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as email attachments. I want to go from csv MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff with the data. The thing is, the device

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Jing Xiao
And I don't think you can do it directly from email to file unless you can hack the device or program it inside. Here is my way if I do it, and you might find a better solution. 1) You need a Mail server, either setup by you own or use a existed one. 2) Access the mail. a) If you setup your

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: The securely part is a gotcha. I would venture a guess that whatever the gadget does to produce emails doesn't include encryption or key verification. What do you qualify as 'securely'? You scan the message attachment to make sure it's valid,

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Esmé Cowles
The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1]. You can configure it to process all incoming mail in an account with a shell script -- decoding the attachment and saving it to a file would be very easy to do, assuming the server is also a FTP or web server. Of course, the script could

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1]. procmail++ That cool little email filter thing was the core of my Mr. Serials Process way back in 1994 or so. And it still works great! The syntax of its recipes is a bit obtuse, but still… --ELM

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

2012-10-17 Thread Nate Hill
thank you all for this information. was away from email for the day and came back to find all the help! yes! N On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1]. procmail++ That cool little email filter thing