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05-25-2011

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If I understand this, you want to accept emails that have embedded images, storing them in a directory that your web server can access to let you see the list and viw individual images.

Email can be captured with a ~/.forward file containing '|executable_file', although this is not a well thought of aspect of sendmail, security-wise. Each arriving email goes to stdin of a separate process running executable_file, which can be a script or binary execuatble.
Email is mime encoded, so you need something to take email files and locate the encoded image(s), decode it to binary and write it to a dir. Usually, images are base 64 encoded, but it depends on the email client, might be uucp encoded or raw binary.
You need to devise a naming method.
You need a web server allowing open directory listing or a web service to format the list into a web page where you can review the list and select images to view.

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slugimage

SLUGIMAGE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SLUGIMAGE(1)

NAME

       slugimage - Manipulate NSLU2 firmware images

SYNOPSIS

       slugimage [-p|-u] [options]

DESCRIPTION

       slugimage can be used to create or unpack NSLU2 firmware images.

OPTIONS

       -d, --debug
	      Turn on debugging output

       -q, --quiet
	      Turn off status messages

       -u, --unpack
	      Unpack a firmware image

       -p, --pack
	      Pack a firmware image

       -l, --little
	      Convert Kernel and Ramdisk to little-endian

       -i, --input
	      Input firmware image filename

       -o, --output
	      Output firmware image filename

       -b, --redboot
	      Input/Output RedBoot filename

       -k, --kernel
	      Input/Ouptut Kernel filename

       -s, --sysconf
	      Input/Output SysConf filename

       -r, --ramdisk
	      Input/Output Ramdisk filename(s)

       -f, --fisdir
	      Input/Output FIS directory filename

       -y, --payload
	      Input/Output Payload filename

       -t, --trailer
	      Input/Output Trailer filename

       -e, --ethaddr
	      Set the Ethernet address

AUTHOR

       This man page was written by Joey Hess, <joey@kitenet.net>.

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