Cfpop..anyone try this yet?

Question

I created a web site that people can send pics to from their
cell phones. I
created a specific email address for the user to send pics to
and am using
cfpop to capture the email, parse it, and insert 3 elements
into a database
(attachment, subject, and 'mobile member').
The one problem I ran into with Verizon is that it sends a
txt file and a
image file at attachments. So, both get inserted into the
database.
Sprint is a pain due to having to link to their site to
retrieve the image.
Is there any way to strip out the image file in the
attachment by either
specifying the mine type or by looking for .jpg and going
backwards till the
first space and trimming the rest off?
Also, how can I automate the cfpop to check for mail every so
often? I have
it set to trigger when a user hits the homepage.
<cffunction name="GetMail" access="remote"
returntype="void">
<cfpop server="mail.mywebsite.com"
username="[email protected]"
password="****" action="GetAll"
attachmentpath="E:\webs\mywebsite.com\wwwroot\gallery\pics"
name="Mobile"
generateuniquefilenames="yes">
<cfif #Mobile.RecordCount# NEQ 0>
<cfquery name="GetPic" datasource="#Request.MainDSN#">
INSERT INTO Gallery (image, location, username)
VALUES ('#Mobile.attachments#','#Mobile.subject#', 'Mobile
Member')
</cfquery>
</cfif>
</cffunction>
Wally Kolcz
Developer / Support

Answer 1

Hi
i think the best idea is by checking the mime type. you can
stripe off the image attachment.
and to automate the checking the new mails you can make use
of the scheduler.
create a scheduler and give some schedule time, then it will
triggers on the specified time.