Reading OSX mail attachments

[Brent Anderson]

Hello.

I've done something similar with audio clips and those were in base  
64 format. A quick base64decode function call should do the trick.

Thanks,
Brent Anderson
Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center

On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

> 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/
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