Fwd: Fwd: Probably an easy problem...

["Ken Keefe" <kjkeefe@gmail.com>]

Yeah, that is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for Paul. However
it is giving me an error about (I think) a missing library. I did a
yum install "perl-Mail*", but it didn't put the POP3Client.pm anywhere
on my system. How should I get this library? Here is the error:

Can't locate Mail/POP3Client.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi

I tweaked your code a little because I don't care about what is in the
subject or anything like that, I just want any attachments the account
receives (it won't be accessible from outside our network). The
modified version:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Written by Nick McCubbins, claws962001@yahoo.com
# 11/9/06

use Mail::POP3Client;
use MIME::Parser;
use strict;

my $_MAILHOST="I filled this in";
my $_USER="I filled this in"; #username
my $_PASS="I filled this in"; #password

my $_OUTDIR="/I/filled/this/in/"; #Output attachments here

my $i = 0;
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( HOST      =>$_MAILHOST,
                                USER      =>$_USER,
                                PASSWORD  =>$_PASS,
                                DEBUG     =>0 );
$parser->output_dir( $_OUTDIR );


if( $pop->Count() < 0 ) {
   die "Error accessing POP mailbox";
}

for( $i = 0; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++ ) {
    my $wholeBody = $pop->HeadAndBody( $i );
    my $entity = $parser->parse_data( $wholeBody );
}

Thanks so much for helping me out. This is making me wonder if I
should finally learn perl... I know PHP for web apps and BASH for
shell scripts, but this is a shining example of what is missing from
that equation.

Ken


On 11/9/06, Paul Nicholas McCubbins <nick77@dtnspeed.net> wrote:
> Tell me if this might fit your needs:
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 08:28 -0600, Ken Keefe wrote:
> > Anyone alive out there?
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Ken Keefe <kjkeefe@gmail.com>
> > Date: Nov 7, 2006 10:21 AM
> > Subject: Probably an easy problem...
> > To: discuss@silug.org
> >
> > Here's the scenario, hopefully you guys can help me or at least point
> > me in the right direction...
> >
> > I have an email account that is emailed pdf files on a regular basis
> > and I want to have my linux box automatically (let's say, every hour)
> > download that email and save the attachments to a directory (let's
> > say, ~/reports/). I don't care about the body or anything else
> > regarding the email, I just need to save the attachment. Any
> > thoughts?
> >
> > I have been trying to get fetchmail to do this for me, but I am having
> > a little trouble. I feel like this is going to be a one line command,
> > but I am just missing a piece of the puzzle.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the help.
> >
> > Ken
> --
> Paul Nicholas McCubbins <nick77@dtnspeed.net>
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