And I don't think you can do it directly from email to file unless you 
can hack the device or program it inside.

Here is my way if I do it, and you might find a better solution.
1) You need a Mail server, either setup by you own or use a existed one.
2) Access the mail.
     a) If you setup your own as a Linux mail server, you can directly 
access it from the mbox file. For PHP you can use 
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail/redirected I believe there are 
libraries for other program language as well.
     b) If you use a existed server, you might need to use a mail client 
to do it. This is a little bit difficult than a). Because you need to 
know the protocol of the mail server POP3/IMAP and etc. One tool you can 
use in Linux is FetchExc in Java
3) Once you can access the mail, you can extract the data from CSV and 
pipe to MySQL, or use script language to ftp and etc. This is not that 
difficult. Tool for Java can be http://opencsv.sourceforge.net/

Trick steps are 1) and 2).

On 10/17/2012 1:16 PM, 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
>


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