Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:04:06 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Downloading file by sending email Message-ID: <20080130110056.E5828@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <200801300536.m0U5aXvV053293@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20080130092413.K4947@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <200801300536.m0U5aXvV053293@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole wrote: >> I want to setup a service such that sending a mail to say >> "someaddress@mydomain" with a list of links per line results in my machine >> downloading the files at these links replying with all these files >> attached. > > Although I don't know of such a service (I recall hearing about such > service ages ago) it sounds not too difficult to built, for example in > Perl, using Curl for downloading and some Perl modules to build a MIME > email to send back. Thanks Olivier. I was stumped on how to make maildrop pipe the email to some program. A bit of research on that (and reading the manpages) showed me how. Now that I've figured that part, the problem is not too difficult. Gotta make a shell/ perl script now to parse the message and do the downloading etc ... Thanks, Rakhesh --- http://rakhesh.net/
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