[plug] Mail - i don't what subject should go here

[Brian Tombleson]

Err .. more information required.

What I have done when I've needed this sort of thing in the past is to
stream the mail from sendmail (or alias to a pipe)to a parser that stips off
the attachment, then pipes it through an image manipulator to get it the
right dimensions, density and colour depth and then store it in the web
folder in the right place and either update a HTML (ie. text) file or to a
list that generates a web page .. all on the server.

Which part of this is Windows?  If the web server is at your ISP, you've got
a lot more complications.

HTH,
Brian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "I am the LinuxAlien" <linuxalien at optusnet.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: [plug] Mail - i don't what subject should go here


> If you receive a attachment in an email where does it go?
> What i need is for an email to be sent to me that contains a picture in
it.
> I then the picture to replace a picture on a web site.
> The email will always come form a certain address and the picture will
> always be the same name.
> I also need to set it up so that it is has a certain subject as well.
> FTP and other file transfer methods don't look possible as it is from
> behind a firewall. Any ideas as to other file transfer methods between
> windows and Linux will be appreciated.
> My thoughts on how to do this are:
> 1. Point web site to folder that contains picture and have a script run
> when the email is received so that the picture is over written
> 2. Have script that replaces the picture in the ~/public-html folder
> Tim
>
> LinuxAlien
> Riverton, Perth, WA
>
> Australian Linux Technical Conference, Perth 2003 http://linux.conf.au