procmail recipe for email to gallery (experts only)

This is a procmail recipe. It goes with your other procmail recipes in your .procmailrc

There might be easier ways to do this, but I use a multi-step process. Each piece may be a little complicated, but they interact in a simple way. You will need procmail, ripmime, and galleryadd.pl.

Here's the flow for my installation:
1) Emails are received by postfix. Sendmail works in a similar fashion.
2) Emails are piped through procmail.
http://www.procmail.org/
3) Procmail checks to see if the email meets certain criteria (subject, sender, etc.)
4) Procmail sends the email to ripmime, which extracts the attachments
http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/
5) Procmail then runs galleryadd.pl to put the attachments into the gallery

6) Procmail runs rm to clean up the attachments

7) You can have procmail also run stripmime to remove the attachments from the email if you want to get the email without attachments
http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html

Let me know if this points you in the right direction. You might even not need procmail. Hmm.

You must customize this to work with your server. You must have procmail, ripmime, and galleryadd.pl already installed and running. I included an example subject match. Don't do this with every message or your target album will probably fill up with spam images.

:0:email2gallery.lock
* ^Content-Type:.*multipart/mixed 
* ^Subject:.*picture
| ripmime -i - -d tempdir/ --syslog_on --paranoid --no_nameless &&\
  galleryadd.pl -l http://gallery -u username -p password -a album tempdir/* &&\
  rm tempdir/*

Then again, maybe you want your spam images.

If you get it working, you could use this to add images emailed from your cell phone, if you have spent the money on that kind of thing. I haven't.

I updated my message to include more explanation. If it doesn't help, try this other thread, which has an easier method:
http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=7641&highlight=cell

It would appear that you are correct - the changelog for ripmime contains this text:

I'm not sure what to tell you - do you have this problem with any other file?

Would you mind sending me the file to test?

I found the source of the problem. It's an obscure bug for sure, but it's there somewhere. In the unlikely event anyone else has a similar problem I will describe what's happening.

I mentioned in my previous posts that a specific file would not upload using galleryadd.pl (timeout error). If the name was changed, the file would load. Or an image with the same name would load. This was reproducible. I found at least one more file that would exhibit the same problem.

Well, turns out the location of the problem is my router. My server sits behind a Dlink router. There are several domains hosted on the server, using name-based virtual hosting. I was attempting to run galleryadd from the server itself to one of these virtual servers. Today I noticed error messages in the logs about the time I was trying to load the file, " do_nat: buffer (1) too small". The domain I was trying to upload to was not in my hosts file, so the requests were going to the router, which is smart enough to loop the requests back to the correct machine on the lan. I've never had any other problems related to this, and the problem would only occur with galleryadd on very specific files. I added the domain to the hosts file so galleryadd contacts the localhost directly. And the problem dissappears, the file uploads correctly. Delete it from the hosts file, the problem comes back. Uploading the offending file to remote hosts also works.

It seems the problem only occurs with specific files, with specific names, when the request has to be routed through the loopback feature of the router.

So, I've avoided the problem by adding the domain to my hosts file, but I am curious if it's a bug in the router with some magical combination of data and filename, or if it's a bug in the galleryremote protocol.

Perhaps sendmail is running as a user that does not have permissions to write out the files?

i whant pics add via email
how is it worke ?
is there a module i can install ?
please help

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