On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:55:32 -0500, Tim Ponn wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a situation where customer orders come to me via email with a > photo attachment. It occurred to me that I could use rev to create a > db front end that could be pointed at the appropriate mailbox folder > and then have it extract each message. Then, each message becomes a > record in my db. > > Extracting the data is a piece o cake. Then I come to the > attachment. Apple apparently uses a compression technique to store > the image (jpg, bmp, whatever) within each individual message. Has > anybody fiddled with reading and displaying these attachments? Any > thoughts? Ideas? Laughs? ;=)
Well, as a last resort you could leave it in Mail, and then use AppleScript to get at the message and its attachments. Barring that, I haven't had to read embedded mail attachments directly, but I'd assume they are either BinHexed or AppleDouble encoded... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
