Comments on: Extract Email Attachments With Procmail and Munpack

By: Txoof

Txoof — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:39:33 +0000

This is almost exactly what I need! I just need something that will *remove* the attachment.
Do you know if there is a sane way to remove attachments from incoming mail? I want to remove all attachments from mail I pop from Gmail. I’m only interested in backing up the text, google can house all the pictures of babies that family members send around.
I’ve looked at MimeDefang, but it’s a bit of a bulldozer where as I only need a garden spade. That, and I don’t want to figure out how to run a sendmail backend just to receive email…

By: Zachary Lund

Zachary Lund — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:12:05 +0000

@Krut,

Do you mean you had to create ~/$HOME/attachments or you had to create ~/attachments? You can alter the directory by changing the $ATTACH variable.

Unfortunately, it does not appear that munpack will give you the file names. However, if you either always unpack the files in a new directory or clear out the attachments directory when you are done, you could simply iterate through all files in the directory. You could also try piping the email to a script that then calls munpack and performs other actions.

Let me know how the script works out. I’d be curious to see the finished product. :)

By: Krut

Krut — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:06:17 +0000

Thanks Zachary
It worked. For some reason the I had to create the directory attachment in $HOME.

Beside that I was wondering is there anyway you can get the name of the attachment file in the same script as I am planning to use the file in another script. ( I.e variable like $attachment_name or something).

Thanks again
Krut.

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