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eeb4u@hotmail.com
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:50 am Post subject:
mail script
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I have a mailserver (Mdaemon on Windows 2003) that handles some
customer email. I used to ftp an alias file to it after processing it
on a solaris box. The aliases were created on one system, FTP'ed to my
solaris box, then I used to upload the alias file nightly to the
windows server. The solaris box had to do some manipulation of the
file to get it in a format that Mdaemon likes while retaining the
permanant aliases on the Mdaemon mail server
The alias file came form a system that is no longer used, and currently
the email aliases are generated via a crystal report. The Crystal
report can be emailed anywhere, but is mailed as an attachment.
I have set up fetchmail to retrieve the email message, but the crystal
report file (plain text file) is an attachment and I don't see a way of
viewing it.
Can anyone suggest of a way to script reading an email attachment, or
is there a simpler way of getting the report file onto a unix box for
proccessing prior to sending to my mail server.
thanks in advance,
Mike D |
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Bill Marcum
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Joined: 28 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:11 am Post subject:
Re: mail script
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On 20 Jul 2006 22:50:14 -0700, eeb4u_athotmail_com
<eeb4u@hotmail.com> wrote:
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I have set up fetchmail to retrieve the email message, but the crystal
report file (plain text file) is an attachment and I don't see a way of
viewing it.
Can anyone suggest of a way to script reading an email attachment, or
is there a simpler way of getting the report file onto a unix box for
proccessing prior to sending to my mail server.
munpack |
mimedecode
Perhaps you wouldn't need a unix box if you installed Cygwin on the mail
server (or better yet, use a Unix, Linux or BSD box as a mail server,
but I'm sure there are reasons you don't already do that).
--
A man is like a rusty wheel on a rusty cart,
He sings his song as he rattles along and then he falls apart.
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John L
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 17 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:38 am Post subject:
Re: mail script
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"eeb4u_athotmail_com" <eeb4u@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1153461014.160759.277040@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | I have a mailserver (Mdaemon on Windows 2003) that handles some
customer email. I used to ftp an alias file to it after processing it
on a solaris box. The aliases were created on one system, FTP'ed to my
solaris box, then I used to upload the alias file nightly to the
windows server. The solaris box had to do some manipulation of the
file to get it in a format that Mdaemon likes while retaining the
permanant aliases on the Mdaemon mail server
The alias file came form a system that is no longer used, and currently
the email aliases are generated via a crystal report. The Crystal
report can be emailed anywhere, but is mailed as an attachment.
I have set up fetchmail to retrieve the email message, but the crystal
report file (plain text file) is an attachment and I don't see a way of
viewing it.
Can anyone suggest of a way to script reading an email attachment, or
is there a simpler way of getting the report file onto a unix box for
proccessing prior to sending to my mail server.
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Simplest is probably to email it straight to a shell script (or other program)
by using an alias.
It is probably irrelevant that there is an attachment. The attachment is still
part of the mail message, merely demarcated with special markers that
may or may not be respected by whatever software processes mail.
You can make simplifying assumptions, such as that only relevant email
is sent to this alias/program, and that anything not in the right format can
be simply discarded as spam (perhaps this should be forwarded to
a human who can check the right stuff is being discarded and there is
not a bug in the script).
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John. |
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Michael Heiming
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 1423
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:28 am Post subject:
Re: mail script
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In comp.unix.shell eeb4u_athotmail_com <eeb4u@hotmail.com>:
| Quote: | I have a mailserver (Mdaemon on Windows 2003) that handles some
customer email. I used to ftp an alias file to it after processing it
on a solaris box. The aliases were created on one system, FTP'ed to my
solaris box, then I used to upload the alias file nightly to the
windows server. The solaris box had to do some manipulation of the
file to get it in a format that Mdaemon likes while retaining the
permanant aliases on the Mdaemon mail server
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| Quote: | I have set up fetchmail to retrieve the email message, but the crystal
report file (plain text file) is an attachment and I don't see a way of
viewing it.
Can anyone suggest of a way to script reading an email attachment, or
is there a simpler way of getting the report file onto a unix box for
proccessing prior to sending to my mail server.
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Not completely sure what you are doing, but it sounds like an
easy job using procmail to send the attachment to a file and then
further process it. As others already pointed out you would ease
up things if you use some *nix box as mail server.
Good luck
--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 388: Bad user karma. |
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