Process e-mail attachments in Automator

Hi Everyone,
I would like to process attachments of incoming mails via automator. (Every mail has just ONE jpeg attachment, this should be resized and then uploaded to an FTP server).
Is this something that can be done in automator or do I need to do that in AppleScript?
Does anybody have any script/example that processes attachments of incoming mails?
Thanks and best regards,
Christoph

Please give us more information.
Are you using a mail client or is this web mail?
Which client or web mail service are you using?
How do you want to resize the attachment, scale, crop, etc.?
Do you currently upload files to an FTP server? How are you doing that? With software like Transmit, Interarchy, etc, or some other way?

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