On Sunday 20 September 2009, "CSB" <kjcsb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We wish to do the following:
> 1. receive an email with an attachment
> 2. process the email body to get some information from it
> 3. send an outbound email to an email address based on the information
> derived from step 2. The email will include the attachment received in
> step 1
>
> I'm not sure where to start with this one so any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
If it's a minor amount of processing, you can just pipe it to a script from
procmail or even straight from the MTA. I don't really like that mechanism
though - too prone to produce bounces in the case of long processing times
or errors. It's better to dump them in a Maildir and use it as a queue for
a polling script.
Perl in particular has a bunch of libraries available to correctly parse
MIME messages and extract addresses and attachments and stuff. Don't write
your own parser.
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damn monkey was just too fast."
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