[GLLUG] processing incoming emails

[Brad Fears]

For all the trouble you'd spend on parsing the email, why not just write a
small web-based form to upload the map and collect any pertinent data? 
You'll probably end up coding it in PHP or Perl anyway...

--Brad Fears


> Is it possible to process incoming emails for commands and retrieve any
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> attachements from the email?
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> Specifically I want to setup a special email address where my friends can
> send maps that they have made for a game we play (BHD).
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> I want to be able to extract the map and upload it to an ftp server, and
> scan the email body for info that could be added to a mysql database.
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> Is this possible?
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> I run gentoo linux using qmail for my email server.
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> Thanks,
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> Seth
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