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scripting mail receipt and saving attachment

I'm working on a script which is supposed to check an email account and automatically download .doc attachments, but I'm having some problems.

I'm using Mutt to check the email account (IMAP), and I can manually get the attachment and saving it, but I cannot for the life of me work out how to script this, as it involves selecting individual attachments from a list and specifying where to save them?

Any pointers on where to look, or alternatives to Mutt which make this easier?

The work flow is:

Check for new messages.
For each new message - parse the Subject field
make directory under /tmp/mail/ with subject as name (Subject is autogenerated and length controlled)
save attached .doc file in newly created directory
Mark all messages read.
Email reply with synopsis.

The emailing of the synopsis can be done by a script which handles the saved files, I'm adding it only in the interest of completeness.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Stefan

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mojomojo::controller::attachment

MojoMojo::Controller::Attachment(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		     MojoMojo::Controller::Attachment(3pm)

NAME

       MojoMojo::Controller::Attachment - Attachment controller

DESCRIPTION

       MojoMojo supports attaching files to nodes. This controller handles administration and serving of these assets.

ACTIONS

   auth
       Return whether the current user has attachment manipulation rights (upload/delete).

   unauthorized
       Private action to return a 403 with an explanatory template.

   default
       Private action to return a 404 not found page.

   attachments
       Main attachment screen.	Handles uploading of new attachments.

   list
       Display the list of attachments if the user has view permissions.

       template: attachments/list.tt

   plain_upload
       Upload feature that uses the traditional upload technique.

   check_file
       Check if the file(s) uploaded could be added to the Attachment table.

   flash_upload
       Upload feature that uses flash

   attachment
       Find and stash an attachment.

   defaultaction
       Set the default action for an attachment which is forwarding to a view.

   view
       Render the attachment in the browser ("Content-Disposition: inline"), with caching for 1 day.

   download
       Forwards to "view" then forces the attachment to be downloaded ("Content-Disposition: attachment") and disables caching.

   thumb
       Thumb action for attachments. Makes 100x100px thumbnails.

   inline
       Show 800x600 inline versions of photo attachments.

   delete
       Delete the attachment from this node. Will leave the original file on the file system but delete its thumbnail and inline versions.

AUTHOR

       Marcus Ramberg "marcus@nordaaker.com"

LICENSE

       This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2010-05-23				     MojoMojo::Controller::Attachment(3pm)