Right, I have control over the server and that's about it. It's got to
be a server based solution.
Brian
On 09/06/2013 01:41 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Unless I mis-understood the post, Brian is not involved in the
> processing of any post. He is asking how to service this clients need
> who does not want to learn anything new. This was a suggestion about a
> way Brian could work his magic for the client's systems so the client
> gets what he needs without himself doing anything.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org
> <mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org>> wrote:
>
> On 2013-09-06 12:06, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> Maybe the solution is there so the images are smaller to begin with.
> For example, if they are from a digital camera, ask to see it and
>
> change the storage resolution. Or maybe in the way they move the
> images to the computer they could use a script that does the resize
> as part of moving the image to computer storage. Then the guy
> doing the emails has no change to how he works. Or how about
> setting up a cron job that resizes the photos before he uses them?
>
>
> 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.
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