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Tag Archives: IMAP

Dovecot LDA vs Procmail

I have a mail server configuration based on Postfix for the smtp, Dovecot for the imap and virtual users receiving e-mails in maildir boxes. I am also using Amavis and Spamassassin for content filtering. I am not going now to describe this configuration, I think there are already a lot of very good tutorials about [...]

Posted 09 December 2009 § Linux § Mailing / Spam § openSUSE ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

How to strip the attachment from an IMAP mail

While trying hard long and long hours to write a perl script that can extract attachments from pieces of e-mail, I realized that there were no clear info on the web on how to do, and that if I successed, I would publish that script.

Finally I succeded. That is actually very easy and that is probably why nothing was ever published about it. But, when you are a beginner in Perl (I learned it in 1 week), you normally need a little bit more help. Also, I was not alone in that case and there were a numerous questions on various forum, but without satisfying answers.

Posted 03 June 2007 § Perl ‡ Comments (14) ° Also tagged: ,