From: Joel Pearson <lists@...>
Date: 2013-03-09T17:09:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding automating some Outlook/IMAP and pdf parsing functions w/ ruby?

I ran this on Office 2010 Outlook, what version are you using and what 
exactly was the error message?

These are the bits you'd probably want to customise:

/@exampledomain.com$/i
This is a Regular Expression. The "i" means ignore case. The "$" means 
at the end of a line ("\z" would be end of the string and would also 
work).

folder = "#{ ENV['USERPROFILE'] }\\example"
This is the destination folder. You could add another "\\subfolder" for 
each group of attachments if you want as well.

special_text = msg.body.scan( /^[a-z]{10}/i )[0]
This Regular Expression extracts text from the email matching a pattern: 
in this case the first 10 a-z characters on the start of a line without 
spaces or other characters in. It will be blank if it doesn't find 
anything, but you could change it to whatever text pattern you want to 
extract. See http://www.rubular.com/ to experiment with Regex.

filename = "#{ folder }\\#{ special_text }#{ index }#{ att.filename }"
This is the one where you determine what you file is called and where it 
will go. I've decided to give them each a unique name by adding the main 
folder, the content we pulled from the email, an index so it's a unique 
name, and the original filename as well. You can customise this however 
you like.

filenames << ( filename = ...
At this point I'm collecting all the filenames together in case I want 
to report them back or do something else with them. It isn't used in the 
example but you could then do something else with this array.

Let me know if there's any further clarification you need. I haven't 
looked into calender appointments, but I think there are a few examples 
of doing this online, and you now have an interface with Outlook to play 
with.

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