03-11-2013
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Originally Posted by
DGPickett
So, you need to receive mail, discard/set aside if not from ID or no attachment, extract the attachment and in the process overwrite a former file?
Sometimes it is better to delet the old file and write a new one, for programs that have the old file open.
You need a script-friendly attachment-capable email client. Perhaps PERL has libraries that support this.
If the email structure is pretty constant, you can find the attachment and extract it with common shell tools like sed or awk, and maybe a decoder like base-64. Take an email apart in vi and see.
Thank you, that's what I was thinking. My situation is this. We are working with SAP transports. And we might get an email request to send some transports. Instead of logging onto the SAP server, modifying the transport list file. We would like to send an email with a text file attachment that replaces this file. Eliminating the need to find a laptop/computer to logon on. Sending an email from a Crackberry or other phone would be so much easier.
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lr_getbody
LR_GETBODY.IN(1) LogReport's Lire Documentation LR_GETBODY.IN(1)
NAME
lr_getbody - Extract file, sender and subject information from an email
SYNOPSIS
eval `lr_getbody [-c content-type] <messagefile>`
DESCRIPTION
lr_getbody reads an email message on stdin (or specified as argument), will extract the submitter address and the subject from that email.
It will also extract the biggest attachment or the first one having a content-type matching the content-type argument.
This information is passed to the caller by printing that information in a format suitable for eval. The following variable will be printed
on STDOUT:
lr_getbody_SUBMITTER
Email address of the submitter. That is the first email that is found in the headers (searched in the following order): Reply-To, From,
Sender. This will only contains the address portion (without the <>).
lr_getbody_TO
The email address to which the email was sent.
lr_getbody_SUBJECT
Subject of the message. That string is sanitized.
lr_getbody_DATE
The date of the message. That string is sanitized.
lr_getbody_FILE
Path to the temporary file holding the found attachment.
lr_getbody_OK
This will be set if the operation was completed successfully. It is possible for lr_getbody to fail to extract the attachment, but the
header information might still be available.
This script is used by lr_processmail(1) and lr_rawmail2mail(1).
VERSION
$Id: lr_getbody.in,v 1.10 2006/07/23 13:16:33 vanbaal Exp $
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AUTHOR
Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>
Lire 2.1.1 2006-07-23 LR_GETBODY.IN(1)