Re: export e-mail attachments
Re: export e-mail attachments
- Subject: Re: export e-mail attachments
- From: Jeremy Sellors <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:39:15 -0800
Well that script works OK. Thanks John.
When I get to play with this a bit I have another idea, but first let
me explain what I am trying to do.
E-mails come in to Mail.app with PDF, Image or .doc (Word) etc
attachments used to make up an ad. I want to export this e-mail and
attachments (or attachment name and path info) to a new record in a
FMPro document. this can then be linked to a clients Insertion Order
for reference and further processing.
Now if I import all the MIME source of the e-mail into a text field.
This includes the attachment code.
Would it be possible to parse this code with an Applescript or Perl
like your EXTRA STUFF piece or even using FMPro calculation to get the
attachments?
On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 11:07 AM, John Delacour wrote:
At 12:33 pm -0800 1/3/03, Jeremy Sellors wrote:
How can I save e-mail attachments in Mail.app?
I need to import selected e-mails into FileMaker Pro and save the
attachment to a folder.
I see you've had no reply from the person who believes Mail to be
scriptable, so while we wait for a one-liner from that quarter,
here's a contorted script almost worthy of Apple that can do what you
want.
Select a message having an attachment in the message viewer and run
this script. The attachment will be expanded by Stuffit Expander on
to your desktop. If you want to get the text of the message too, then
it will need to be parsed and I haven't bothered with that bit, excet
that after "EXTRA STUFF" I get the whole content of the message, which
will not display if it's too big. There is also the problem that Mail
at some indeterminate point changes the name of the files, so we have
to try to read the final name and if that fails read the initial name.
You'll need to delete the numbered mailboxes by hand, unless someone
tells us otherwise, because Mail turns phantoms into reality -- and
vice versa of course :-)
snip script
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