blog.lundscape.com » Marquette University http://blog.lundscape.com The Linux Journey Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:55:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Extract Email Attachments With Procmail and Munpack http://blog.lundscape.com/2009/10/extract-email-attachments-with-procmail-and-munpack/ http://blog.lundscape.com/2009/10/extract-email-attachments-with-procmail-and-munpack/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:37:33 +0000 Zachary Lund http://blog.lundscape.com/?p=234 I regularly use the Marquette University PrintWise Canon copiers to scan paper documents into PDF files. These files are delivered to me via email where I manually save each PDF attachment, rename it, and move it to the appropriate directory. Using Procmail and Munpack, I was able to eliminate some of the tedium of this problem.

I inserted the following block of code into my .procmailrc file. It looks for emails that were sent from me and to me by a Canon copier. When it finds one, it copes the email and pipes it to Munpack which extracts the attachments into my attachments directory.

ATTACH=`echo $HOME/attachments`
:0 c
* ^To:.*me@email.com
* ^From:.*me@email.com
* ^X-Mailer: Canon imageRUNNER
| munpack -q -C $ATTACH

After the attachment has been extracted, I can rename it and move it to the appropriate directory, and I still receive the email in my inbox so I know I have attachments to deal with.

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Rather than creating my presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint or OpenOffice.org Impress, I decided to check out the LaTeX Beamer package for my presentation. Since I’ve been using LaTeX for a while, it wasn’t too difficult to figure out, and it worked particularly well because most of the presentation is Postfix configuration text which I could easily include in the presentation.

The presentation is available as a PDF for download.

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