Reading OSX mail attachments

[Ken Ray]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:55:32 -0500, Tim Ponn wrote:

> 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? ;=)

Well, as a last resort you could leave it in Mail, and then use 
AppleScript to get at the message and its attachments. Barring that, I 
haven't had to read embedded mail attachments directly, but I'd assume 
they are either BinHexed or AppleDouble encoded...


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/