Re: mail script


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.


The mail server has been in place for a long time and will not be
converted to a *nix box. Converting over several thousand email
accounts is something that I wouldn't consider trivial. These are
customer accounts and I wouldn't like to mess things up.

My old alias file process involved giving customers aliases so that
their real address would not be published. Usually about 20-50 new
aliases had to be added to the Mdaemon server nightly and a similar
number of expired aliases would be removed from this server.

I used to get a two column/several line (20 - 50) row flat file ftp'ed
to my solaris box nightly. I would also ftp the original alias file
from mdaemon to the solaris box so that I could strip out expired
aliases and merge the new aliases into the alias file. I would then
ftp the new alias file to the Mdaemon box.

The issue now is that I no longer get the list of aliases (in the flat
file) ftp'ed to me. The system that did this has been replaced. The
new method of obtaining aliases involves a crystal report server. The
server can email the list as an attachment to an email. I have set up
fetchmail to retrieve this email, but I am unsure of a way to handle
the attachment.

Others have suggested using munpack and mimedecode, and I will look
into this tonight at work. I have not tried using procmail but I will
check this out also.

thanks for your suggestions,

Mike D

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