On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:17, Scott Russell wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:58, David Smith wrote: > > Finally got around to playing with sieve, and all my server side > > filtering is now working like a dream however... > > > > I want to setup a sieve rule that will pipe an email sent to a certain > > account to a perl script, I've done a google to see if I can find info > > on this and have hit a blank wall... any help / pointers appreciated > > > > (the plan is to set it up so i can send images from my camera phone to > > an email address and have the images ftp'd to my site...) > > You could always have sieve put these images into a special folder and > then using the perl IMAP modules watch that folder for new content. Out > of cron runs a perl script that: > > 1) connects to imap server > 2) gets new messages in the folder "mobile_picts" > 3) gets the message content and sends it via ftp to your web site > 4) marks the new messages as \Seen > 5) disconnects
It seems to me that this would be lots simpler if the images are mailed to a special account, used only for that purpose. Then create an aliases record for that account that pipes the messages to the proccess that does the FTP. -- The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat. --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
