On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:57:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > I am looking for advice on the best way to set up a process to read > incoming emails (from a normal unix mailbox on the same host) > containing a gzipped telemetry attachment. I'd like the script to > extract the attachment into a directory where another process will pick > it up. I plan to run it every minute out of cron, so it would probably > start by moving the mbox file to another name so that incoming emails > and later instances of itself won't be affected.
You might want to take a look at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/86675 and http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/86676 I'm using those two recipes for a project very similar to what you described. Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
