Date:         Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:00:38 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: off-topic: programmable email software?

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:25:26 +0100, Dietrich Alte <alte@UNI-GREIFSWALD.DE>
wrote:

>Dear SAS-L
>
>although this is slightly off topic, I try it on SAS-L as it is in a
>process where SAS plays an important role.
>
>In a telemedicine project we are planning to get 200-300 emails with
>one attached PDF-file every day. I need to automatically save the
>attachments to hard disk and delete the email.
>
>Is anybody aware of software that can help doing that on the PC-side
>(OS: WIN2K, SAS 8.2) ?
>
>I am now using Netscape Messenger (Communictar 4.78) for emailing. But
>that has no script language or similar to automatically save things.
>
>Any idea?
>
>
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> Dietrich Alte (Statistician, Dipl.-Stat.)
> - SHIP // Project Management -
> University of Greifswald - Medical Faculty
> Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine
> Walther-Rathenau-Str. 48, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany
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> Email      alte@uni-greifswald.de
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Yes, SAS 8.2 should be a good choice for that. I saw, that it is possible
to send e-mails with SAS and the data manipulation, also on the file system
of Win2K is possible. So you have all you need. For composing and sending e-
mails, you should have a look into the archives of this list or in the
manuals.