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The "securely" part is a gotcha. I would venture a guess that whatever the gadget does to produce emails doesn't include encryption or key verification. Cary On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Joe Hourcle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote: > >> Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here... >> I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as >> email attachments. >> I want to go from csv > MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff >> with the data. >> The thing is, the device can only email the files as attachments, it >> doesn't give me the ability to upload them to a server. >> Can anyone suggest how I can securely email a file directly to a folder on >> a server? >> >> The scenario is nearly identical to what is described here: >> http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-upload-to-an-FTP-site-via-email > > > It depends if you're hosting the mail server or not. If you are, > and it's a unix box, you change your .forward file to pipe into > a program to do the processing, eg: > > |/path/to/program > > > If you're already using procmail for local mail delivery, you > can do more complex things with a .procmailrc file. (eg, only > pass along to the processing program messages that match > certain characteristics): > > http://www.procmail.org/ > > > If you're not hosting your own mail server, you might be able > to cobble something together with fetchmail, which retrieves > mail from IMAP or *POP* services and then processes it for > local delivery: > > http://www.fetchmail.info/ > > -Joe > > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com