On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net>wrote:
> Do you know any scripting languages such as PHP?
>
>
I've been lucky enough to whack a PHP file or two into what I want, but I
would never admit in public that I even have a clue what PHP is.
> In the past, I made a PHP script to read mail, open the attachments and
> then act upon the contents of said attachments. I was running the script
> with cron, but nowdays I would just make a PHP script run as daemon which
> can be stop|start|restart|etc just like any other daemon.
>
>
I like the idea of using PHP though. I'll look into it. Thanks.
IMHO, PHP is far easier than Procmail.
>
> P
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Clint Billedeaux <clint@fastbadge.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to automate some very routine email handling done by the office
>> staff.
>>
>> At present, one person is assigned to check an email inbox and save it's
>> attachments to folders on the file server. I'm sure scripting this to
>> happen throughout the day shouldn't be a huge ordeal, but I haven't the
>> foggiest idea how to start. I looked at a few procmail scripts, but I'm
>> coming up short on comprehending how to save the email attachments.
>>
>> Any ideas where I should look for help?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Clint
>>
>
>
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