An email arrives on the mail server with a foto attached (a motion warning from a security camera, for example) and I would like to forward that foto to a twitter account via a DM. I think I have all the tools necessary to do this, but I haven't gotten them all together.
Currently I am able to send a text message saying "there was a motion warning with a photo, please check email" but that is suboptimal.
The solution I am thinking is best (though I am open o anything) is to figure out how to extract the image from the email and save it to a http accessible location on the server, then link to that location in the DM. However, I am open to any other ideas.
OK, I have a working (if terrible) solution.
First, using ripmime I pipe the message to ripmime from within procmail. This produces a bunch of garbage files, along with an image file that I want. I proud these files in a web folder, and then I run a cron task to test the URL to the image and delete the garbage files.
#!/bin/bash
BASE="/usr/local/www/photodrop/"
PHOTO=`find $BASE -cmin -2 -type f -name="*.jpg" -exec basename {} \;`
URL="http://www.example.com/photodrop/$PHOTO"
echo $URL
oysttyer -runcommand="/dm @[user] $URL"
In procmail, I simply pipe the message to ripmime
:0
| ripmime -i - -v -d /usr/local/www/photodrop/
I looked at several other mime packages (munpack for one) but they didn't like accepting piped messages and munpack specifically required a path to a file, so that was no good. So, this works. Barely.
For security, I remove the images (actually, I move them) after 5 minutes.