Re: [opensuse] Tool to extract/save mail attachments?

On 2007. 12. 31., Monday 14:31:50 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 14:15 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Monday 2007-12-31 at 13:05 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I have the same need. What I really want it to have the attachments
saved somewhere, and a link to that place put in the message so I can
find the attachment. This way I can reasonably keep my e-mail backed
up, independent of backing up the much larger attachments.

I would love to have that, too.

Please post if you find anything. Have you checked procmail? It is a
Swiss Army knife in this area. I think it is more powerful than the
docs immediately let on.

Yes, but you need a filter to do this separation; procmail can only
traverse the folder and send each mail to the filter.

Indeed. But perhaps there is a procmail recipe for this. Or something
close.

It may not be the right tool for you... but mailman does something similar.
Among other things mailman keeps an archive of messages; in this archive
attachments are stored as separate files, emails contain a link to their
attachments.
Tom
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