blog.lundscape.com » PDF http://blog.lundscape.com The Linux Journey Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 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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