Replace image attachments with resized versions

[Brian Cluff]

What you are describing is exactly that I'm looking for.  I'd write my 
own, but it just seems like one of those type of things that should 
already have a per-built solution out there.

As for having a cron job of find script that would resize the images, 
that would be awesome, but they are using windows, and don't have any 
control over that.

I wish they are running KDE; I would just make a service menu that 
allowed them to right click on their image(s) and select "Process for 
Newsletter".

Also changing the camera isn't an option either.  It's a LONG drive to 
go change it myself, and it also has the same problem as the computer in 
that they don't want to learn anything about the camera either... that 
and even at 640x480, the images are larger than they need to be for the 
news letter.  They essentially need to be 400xwhatever proportional.

I think in the end we are gonna just get rid of this customer, because 
we are also looking at having to teach them virtumart and that is 
complex enough that it makes resizing an image seem like a non-existent 
issue.  I am however still interested in a solution because I can think 
of a ton of uses for it in the future that hopefully don't involve 
stubborn customers.

Brian Cluff

On 09/06/2013 12:34 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
> This may be possible.  There are some details missing, though.  How does
> this message get to Brian in the first place?  Does it show up over
> SMTP?  If so, the solution will probably involve something like having
> the MTA look for a particular sender, then pass that message off to an
> external filter script.  The filter script would then have to split the
> message up into body and attachments, then base64 decode those
> attachments into a temp directory, then do a convert command like the
> one Joe posted earlier on all of those attachments, then stitch the
> message back together, then pass it back to the MTA, then clean up.
>
> I don't know of anything pre-built that'll do all that off the top of my
> head.  There's always the wonderful "import email" part of python, if
> python is an option, and there are also mail-parsing Perl modules.