Reading OSX mail attachments

[Tim Ponn]

Hello all,

I have a situation where customer orders come to me via email with a  
photo attachment.  It occurred to me that I could use rev to create a  
db front end that could be pointed at the appropriate mailbox folder  
and then have it extract each message.  Then, each message becomes a  
record in my db.

Extracting the data is a piece o cake.  Then I come to the  
attachment.  Apple apparently uses a compression technique to store  
the image (jpg, bmp, whatever) within each individual message.  Has  
anybody fiddled with reading and displaying these attachments?  Any  
thoughts?  Ideas?  Laughs? ;=)

Thanks in advance!

Best Regards,

Timothy R. Ponn