Re: [exim] Random Idea... Possible?

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Author: Mike Kennedy
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To: Mike Lyon
CC: <exim-users@exim.org>
Subject: Re: [exim] Random Idea... Possible?
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@???> wrote:

> Has anyone ever used / configured Exim as an email server to receive
> incoming e-mails, capture an attached file and then save the file off
> somewhere in a directory?
>
> We currently have some partners and such that send us files via SCP but it
> seems getting someone knowledgeable to set that up on the partner's side
> can sometimes be an extremely painful task.
>
> Was just a random idea. Wanted to see if anyone has ever done it before.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>

I'm doing something comparable, using a transport_filter pointing to a
crummy perl script I wrote to strip off attachments matching certain mime
types and discard them. It would probably be trivial to perform a uudecode
and save the result instead of discarding.