Get attachment from email and save it as file

[adi]

Hello,

I want to be able to upload pdf files to a webpage by sending them to an email address where my script would parse the message and get the file. How would you go about this?

Thank you.

[bradgrafelman]

I would pipe all incoming mail on that mailbox into a PHP script that gets invoked (rather than simply placing the message into the mailbox container as would normally be done). Instructions vary on how to do this based on which mail daemon software is being used.

Alternatively, if the above method is not available, you could instead setup a cron job that periodically polls a given mailbox (e.g. via POP3 or IMAP) in order to retrieve and process all messages in it.

[adi]

Thanks, i guess i'll go for the second option, given the fact that the first will probably require root access, which i don't have. Any example on retrieving the attachement?

[bradgrafelman]

adi;10996094 wrote:

Any example on retrieving the attachement?

That would highly depend upon how you go about interfacing with the mail server using PHP. Whichever method you do choose, though, should come with some sort of documentation; I would think fetching an attachment from a message would be a fairly basic enough operation such that it should be in that documentation.