From: "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...>
Date: 2013-03-07T15:10:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding automating some Outlook/IMAP and pdf parsing functions w/ ruby?

	Subject: Question regarding automating some Outlook/IMAP and pdf parsing functions w/ ruby?
	Date: gio 07 mar 13 01:44:18 +0900

Quoting Ed Zimmerman (lists@ruby-forum.com):

> I am looking to automate a software process as follows: I would like to
> know if it's possible to create an rb that could look at an email inbox,
> filter the results from the current day to 1 senders domain, any of
> those emails w/ pdf attachments would get certain information parsed out
> for use in the next processes, I would like a directory created on our
> NAS and named from parts of the parsed info, I would like the original
> pdf to be copied to that directory and renamed using parts of the parsed
> info, finally I would like ruby to create a calendar event using parts
> of the parsed info. The finished script can run on Linux or Windows.

Sounds feasible (I do not know about calendar events, though). What's
your question? Did you start coding? 

Carlo

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