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The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1]. You can configure it to process all incoming mail in an account with a shell script -- decoding the attachment and saving it to a file would be very easy to do, assuming the server is also a FTP or web server. Of course, the script could also just decode the attachment and load it directly into MySQL. 1. http://partmaps.org/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#rtfm -Esme -- Esme Cowles <[log in to unmask]> "I don't need to be forgiven." -- The Who, Baba O'Reilly On 10/17/2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > -- > Nate Hill > [log in to unmask] > http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/ > http://www.natehill.net