Creating a knowledgebase/library from email

jalewis2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a knowledge base that is created from email. It is very handy, but I want to expand on it.

I am using this prog for creating the KB. http://arts.sourceforge.net

Now, I want to be able to send attachments also. The goal would be to have the attachments pulled from the email, stored in a directory and linked in the KB entry. I was hoping for a code sample that I could plug into my current setup, but I can't find any examples. Has anyone done this?

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Re: Creating a knowledgebase/library from email by davorg (Chancellor) on Dec 14, 2001 at 15:28 UTC
You can pull attachments out of emails using the MIME::Parser module. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re: Creating a knowledgebase/library from email by BazB (Priest) on Dec 14, 2001 at 19:33 UTC
It took me a little while to track down documentation on using MIME::Tools (which includes MIME::Parser and MIME::Entity) when I needed it for a project. The module author has copious information at ZeeGee.com Maybe I was just a bit slow, but it should help. Cheers Baz.	[reply]
Re: Creating a knowledgebase/library from email by lachoy (Parson) on Dec 14, 2001 at 20:12 UTC
Ken Williams gave an interesting talk at YAPC::NA 2001 about using the AI::Categorize module with incoming questions for the Math Forum. He has his slides and talk online for you to check out. There's also a budding Perl Knowledge Base project that you might be interested in. Chris M-x auto-bs-mode	[reply]