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

[Jeff Williams]

Can't you use scp? Or tunnel some other form of file transfer method 
over ssh? Processing emails is not going to be a fun thing to do.

Jeff

I am the LinuxAlien wrote:

> 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
>
> .
>

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