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From:
padams@parts-unltd.com
Subject: Processing email attachments
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 3:07 PM
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Is there anyway to deliver email attachments to a MCP share?
It's not clear to me the context in which this needs to operate. I
gather from your question that emails containing attachments will arrive
at some email server. Normally, incoming emails are processed by an MDA
(Mail Delivery Agent) and delivered to the inbox of an email account
where they can be picked up by some MUA (Mail User Agent, e.g.,
Outlook), but some email servers provide the ability to process the
incoming messages in other ways.
I don't know of a working email server for modern MCP systems (the old A
Series Mail product has been gone for about 20 years), so presumably the incoming messages are being (or will be) processed by some other system.
If that external system can extract attachments from the messages and
store them in, say, a Windows file system, I don't see any reason it
couldn't write them to an MCP shared directory. The next question would
be what format is used for the attachments and whether that is something
that can be easily processed by MCP applications.
It appears to me that EOM (Enterprise Output Manager, formerly DEPCON)
can do at least some of this. You can set it up to monitor multiple IMAP
email accounts and receive messages. According to the documentation:
"Output Manager will optionally parse the e-mail body and its
attachments, then write these into individual files and pass them
to the File Masks to create jobs for each of the files. Either
secure (signed or encrypted) or unsecure (unsigned and unencrypted)
e-mail messages can be received through this process."
In order words, it appears that EOM can serve as a MUA for IMAP account.
File Masks are an EOM routing mechanism that processes incoming data.
The data can be sent to multiple destinations of various types, often
printers, but also disk directories and custom programs.
I'd be happy to learn more about what you need to do and continue this discussion. Feel free to contact me privately if you wish.
Paul
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