Grabbing attachments from emails.

[Chillijam]

Hi,

I am not sure this is the right forum, but I'll go ahead and ask anyway...

I have a RedHat server running a site at the moment. The content of the site is submitted by email, in the form of text attachments. I currently have it all set up so that fetchmail and .forward redirect mails to a script in /etc/smrsh that parses the mail. The only problem is that when I wrote the system, I was in a rush, so I kludged the parsing to find attachments.

Is there a way from the command line to save an attachment from an email to a specified location>? If there is, it will save me about 9 hours per week in tracking down problems with different mail clients being used to send the mails.

Thanks in advance
CJ

[DarkAngelBGE]

As you want this to do from the command line you shall ask in another forum... Apache perhaps.

[Chillijam]

OK, but I would have thought it was even less appropriate to an Apache Forum. I will be using PHP to handle the resulting files that (hopefully) will be created.

I guess a few hours Googling might be my best bet after all.

thanks
CJ

[Mower]

just get them to upload the text doc thorugh a ftp server. then use the command line function `` `` in php to move it around the server hd's. There possess security risks by allowing php to access areas of the HD out side of the web server directory, Or painfuly fix the code in the first place