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Thanks, something happens now, but not what is expected It starts and justs sits there with a rectangular blob on a line of its own. No attchements stripped, nor messages altered. BTW i've also added the line 
#!usr/bin/perl -w

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to the top of strip.pl and no warnings are generated.
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Re: Re: Re: Newbie : Extracting Attchments from E-Mail and storing in a directory
by dada (Chaplain) on Oct 25, 2002 at 09:25 UTC
    ok, we are one step further :-)

    what your script is doing is: waiting for something to come on input (STDIN). this means you're supposed to call your script like this: 

    perl strip.pl < file.msg

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    supposing that file.msg is a file that contains the mail you are going to process.

    cheers,
    Aldo

    King of Laziness, Wizard of Impatience, Lord of Hubris

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      Okay, I understand that. But what i don't understand is how do I access the mail messages to run this on them? e-mail is sent to me@localhost.localdomain and sendmail is running. typing mail at the command prompt (or whatever the Linux version is called) says I have n messages. (where n is a number) Also I read someware else that you can create a `.forward` file in the root of your home directory to automate this. (the desired operation as there will be a dedicated e-mail server for this - currently being tested on a standalone laptop) 
      "|IFS=' '&&exec perl /home/kev/Documents/webtest/mail/strip.pl||exit 7
+5"

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      (modified from another one) This just loses the mail (Evolution or mail can't find it). I'm guessing I would probably need to change this to something along the lines of 
      "|IFS=' '&&exec perl /home/kev/Documents/webtest/mail/strip.pl < file.
+msg ||exit 75"

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      Is this along the right lines?, and what would i need to put in the place of "file.msg"?
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        I've now worked out that to call the perl file i need to use the line 
        "| /home/me/Documents/webtest/mail/strip.pl < $1"

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        in the `.forward` file. I have also found the missing e-mails - they were in the root mail box. in the mail i have 
        --- The Following addresses had permanet fatal errors ----
"| /home/me/Documents/webtest/mail/strip.pl < $1"
(reason : service unavailble)
(expanded from : <me@localhost.localdomain>)

---- Transcript of session follows ----
451 4.0.0 hash map "generics": missing map file /etc/mail/genericstabl
+e.db: No such file or directory
smrsh : strip.pl not avalible for sendmail programs
554 5.0.0 Servive Unavalible

[Snip message headers, body and attachments]

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        How do i create "genericstable.db" and allow strip.pl to be avalible for sendmail programs?
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