[nflug] Automated Email Processing - Retrieve Emails and save along with attachements on Samba share

[Darin Perusich]

Wouldn't a better approach be to format the message as html and make 
them available on a web server? By going about it this way you don't 
loose the threading of messages, they appear in chronological order, you 
can sort based on thread, author, date, etc, and you can easily scan the 
messages from the Subject. If you drop them into a samba directory for 
each message you're going to have at a minimum 1 file, for messages with 
attachments there will be 2+ files. Just think about how quickly that is 
going to get our of control and messy.

I'd use 'fetchmail' to pull the mail from the pop3/imap source and run 
'hypermail' or some other mail2html tool on the local mailbox to convert 
to html and dump the files to a web accessible folder. When you need to 
print out the messages you could script it with a2ps or from your browser.

Ronald Wechter wrote:
> Tyler,
> 
> The store as text/pdf is a requirement.  Were looking to store the
> emails and attachments on a Samba share.  Eventually, once this first
> task is accomplished, I will write a script to send the emails
> occasionally to a printer.
> 
> I found a project on SourceForge that can send emails to CUPS but I
> cannot remember the name of the project.  Not sure if that would be
> helpful.  I read through the initial procmail FAQ / Documentation and
> will be doing some testing with it.  Not sure if this is the right
> path to go down but it looks like procmail can call scripts (Perl,
> Bash, etc).
> 
> Ron
> 
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Tyler Poland <tyler.poland at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ron,
>>
>> Is the store as text/pdf a requirement or would you be able to work
>> with "Offline" settings in a client like Thunderbird?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tyler
>>
>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Ronald Wechter <niterav at sherman2k.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Yes - IMAP and POP3
>>> The focus is not really on AOL specifically...just how to use an IMAP
>>> or POP3 account, pick up the email, and process accordingly.
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Tyler Poland <tyler.poland at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ron,
>>>>
>>>>  What are the options available for connecting to AOL (POP3 IMAP)??
>>>>
>>>>  Tyler
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Ronald Wechter <niterav at sherman2k.com> wrote:
>>>>  > All,
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Looking for suggestions on what to use to retrieve emails (from an AOL
>>>>  > account) and save the contents to a text/pdf file along with its
>>>>  > attachment if exists.  There are so many avenues I could take and am
>>>>  > welcoming any suggestions.
>>>>  >
>>>>  > So far fetchmail/procmail or getmail are the couple of daemons that I
>>>>  > am currently looking into.
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Links to How To's / Procmail documentation would be helpful too!
>>>>  >
>>>>  > Ron
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-633-3463
Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com