[Mrpostman-developers] Creating attachments and referencing from an email

[Jon D. <jon...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I'm currently updating the outlook 2003 script and I have a couple of
questions about attachments.  When receiving email, I am detecting if the
incoming email is an event invite and saving out the raw ICS information to
the filesystem as a file that is available via a local web server and then
creating a new attachment, refering to the URL of the file.  Once the email
has been downloaded, the temporary attachment can be deleted.  I was
wondering if there is a way of creating an attachment entirely in memory, o=
r
possibly just with access to a tmp directory?  The way i'm implementing thi=
s
currently is shown below:

# JD If this is a meeting invite, get the raw email using header
Translate=3Df, extract the invite as an ICS
    # and add as an attachment
    pattern_invite=3D"\?Cmd=3Daccept\" title=3D\"Accept\""
    found =3D match(page,pattern_invite)
    if (found)
        params[""] =3D ""
        headers["Translate"] =3D "f"
        status,page =3D get(replaceall(replaceall(msg.id,"\\[","%5B"), "\\]=
",
"%5D"),params,headers)
        pattern_ics=3D"(BEGIN:VCALENDAR.+END:VCALENDAR)"
        icsfound,ics=3Dmatch(page,pattern_ics)

        # Now write the ics file to a web shared folder to allow a link to
be added
        # TODO find a better way of doing this, this is stupid
        writefile("/Users/jon/Sites/mail/meeting.ics", ics)
        msg.attachments[0].text=3D"meeting.ics"
        msg.attachments[0].link=3D"http://localhost/~jon/mail/meeting.ics"
    end

Hopefully this code makes it clear what i'm currently doing.

My second question is related to the first.  I am trying to find a way of
displaying embedded images within emails.  As it currently stands, the
embedded images are displayed in OWA as links relative to the email.  What =
I
would like to do is download the images, create attachments (hopefully in
the same manner as above), and then rewrite the email image links to link t=
o
the attachments from within the email.  Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers,

Jon

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