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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