#! /usr/bin/python
""" Extract attachments from emails and store them as files.
Command-line argument: target directory
Stdin: email text (e.g., through procmail)
This script performs no error checking and assumes that anything with
a filename will be base64-encoded. This is really only meant to collect
data that is emailed automatically. Test well and use at your own risk.
"""
import sys
import email.parser
import base64
BASEDIR = sys.argv[1] + '/'
parser = email.parser.Parser()
mail = parser.parse(sys.stdin)
if mail.is_multipart():
for m in mail.get_payload():
if (m.get_filename() != None):
file = open(BASEDIR + m.get_filename(), 'w')
file.write(base64.b64decode(m.get_payload()))
file.close()
