- get mail and put into a directory
- extract parts of email
- save relevant parts to new directory
- delete all other parts
simplest?
https://antipaucity.com/2014/04/24/automatically-extract-email-attachments-with-common-linux-tools/
$ yum install mpack $ cat extract-attach.sh #!/bin/bash rm -rf ~/attachtmp mkdir ~/attachtmp mv ~/Maildir/new/* ~/attachtmp cd ~ munpack ~/attachtmp/* rm -rf ~/attachtmp $ crontab -l */5 * * * * ~/extract-attach.sh
messier?
http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/#workswith
Now just need simple ‘get email’ program
https://opensource.com/life/15/8/top-4-open-source-command-line-email-clients
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getmail
[retriever] type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever server = pop.gmail.com username = username@gmail.com port = 995 password = password [destination] type = Maildir path = ~/mail/
Once the .fetchmailrc file is configured, fetchmail can be invoked simply by issuing the following command:
fetchmail
.fetchmailrc
poll example.com protocol pop3 username "username" password "XXX"