Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all,

please somebody can help me out in reading the pop3 mail attachments or saving it locally

i have a mail account where i receive .csv attachments i need to read that attachments and process them.

any sample code can be much appriciated

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what is your mail-client?
where is your problem (save or parse attachment) ?
what is your goal after saving the your attachment ?

bt(btitish telecom) has provided a mail account where we receive .csv attachments.through programing we need to read the attahments and insert the data into our data base tables..
iam new new to UNIX and i knew very basic things only..
what i need here is i need to connect to the mail box for every 3 mins and save the attachments of all the mails in the inbox to a folder then delete all the mails from inbox.

it will be greateful if u can provide me some sample code ...

hi,srikanthkadapal

firstly you must read some documents related this ssue.
i havent tried it before.but i think you can do it after some packages installs and configure these.

-> first stage (fetchmail)
you can use fetchmail for check a pop3 account and download mail from remote IMAP and POP servers and/or save it into local mailboxes(if we desire this).
* if it is not installed on the system then install appropriate fetchmail pckg.
* configure to your account settings in "~./fetchmailrc"
*

Code:

# fetchmail -d 180 # (for 3 mins)

for these you can look this page
Using fetchmail

-> second stage (procmail+metamail)
* install procmail (it is simply a mda for forwarding mails to separate folders)
* install metamail (for decode,display and save non-text mails and/or and find the correct program for mime based files (for ex..if your attachment is a jpg then it calls convenient jpg viewer on your system but we dont use this now)
and for these you can look at this page
Howto: receive mail and save attachment with fetchmail, procmail and metamail | /home/tom

i hope this will be helpfull..

regards
ygemici