From: Kevin Bullock <kbullock@...>
Date: 2004-11-22T14:58:58+09:00
Subject: Re: dealing with email attachments (photos)

It just so happens that I was working on a moblog (mobile blogging) 
application this spring, and I used rmail to parse out the attachments. 
I never got around to doing anything with multimedia attachments; my 
script only parses out text sections and combines them. RMail seems to 
work well for this, though. You would do something like:

msg = RMail::Parser.read( file_handle )
if msg.multipart?
	msg.each_part do | part |
		if part.header.media_type == 'image'
			# decode image and write to directory
		elsif part.header.media_type == 'text'
			# add part.body to the text of your posting, however you're storing 
it
		end
	end
end

Pacem in terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa
Kevin R. Bullock

On Nov 21, 2004, at 7:08 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:

> What I want to do:
> I'm setting up a photo blog (probably using Hobix, but that's not 
> final yet).
> I want to be able to send an email to a certain email address and have 
> that email
> posted to the blog if it meets certain criteria.  I also want to be 
> able to
> attach photos to the email message.  When the script finds that there 
> are
> attached photos it should read those attachements, de-encode them and 
> copy them
> to a specified photo directory.
>
> It would be great if someone already has a script for doing this sort 
> of thing
> that they would be willing to share.  If not, perhaps someone could 
> point me in
> the right direction - which would be better for this: rubymail or 
> TMail?
>
> Phil
>
>
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