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

[I am the LinuxAlien]

The web server is at UCC
The windows is sending the email
Tim
At 20:57 13/09/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>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

LinuxAlien
Riverton, Perth, WA

Australian Linux Technical Conference, Perth 2003 http://linux.conf.au