Re: PHP / Procmail / MIME decoder, Imagemagick, MySQL, PDF fax management system

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 21:50 -0700, Dan Harrington wrote: > Hello, > > I have seen procmail and PERL, and some MIME handling scripts...but I > haven't seen PHP, Procmail, Mysql, and MIME handling to effectively handle > incoming emails. I don't know PERL, so naturally I'd like to see it all > written in stuff that I can understand and tweak if needbe. > > I have a Fax to Email service that sends me emails with all my faxes. I > want to process and parse them as follows: > Fax >> multi-page PDFs >> My Email >> Procmail >> PHP / MIME decoder / > Imagemagick >> MySQL >> save PDF >> Imagemagick each page to preview > thumbnails. > > The attachments would be stored (or links to attachments stored on file > system) along with main message stored in MySQL, and Imagemagick would make > thumbnails of each page of the multi-page PDFs. > > I could then have my office assistant browse the messages by web browser, > add keywords, To/From, Subject, categories to each of the > messages,images,PDFs for later perusal and searching. And when I wanted to > go back a year ago and try to retrieve an old fax, it wouldn't be so hard. > :-) > > Surely someone has done this, but I can't find it....and I'm too busy and > cowardly to write it myself :-) > > Thanks > Dan > > This may sound a bit of a strange question, but why put the fax in a PDF? I mean, it's a bitmap graphic, so why not just leave it in a bitmap format? If that sounds strange, I'm the kind of person who gets annoyed at people who put screenshots in MSWord documents! Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk