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UPDATE - mailsave is now an official Drupal contribution and you can download the latest versions directly from the mailsave project page.

This also means that if you experience any problems or find a bug then you can raise issue requests directly at the project page.

I am emailing this post in to the website, via my new mailsave module!

mailsave works with mailhandler and will save all the incoming attachments. If you also have image installed then you can choose to have emails that contain a jpeg turned in to an image node, complete with thumbnail. The rest of attachments then get saved as normal.

Ok - going to hit send now, and then type the rest of this post on the web...

This module replaces my earlier code that actually modified mailhandler itself. While that worked (and certainly let me send in a few pictures!) when I posted a reference to it at drupal.org someone suggested that it would be better if it were a separate module.

I am only just learning to write modules, so this seemed like a nice challenge, and I have my first version of mailsave ready and attached to this post.

Unlike my original code, that relied on a modified mailhandler, mailsave is completely separate and interacts with mailhander via hook_mailhandler and hook_nodeapi. The first hook fetches the attachments out the message body, stores them, and converts the node to an image if required. The second hook is processed as part of the save and attaches the remaining files.

If image isn't installed then all the files just get attached.

Attached files are stored in their own folder underneath the drupal_user_files folder so they can be kept separate from regular uploads.

So far it seems ok, so I'm going to leave it running for a while, and see if it is working right (and if anyone else wants to download it!)

And yes, it is for 4.6, and I know 4.7 is coming out, but I haven't got round to upgrading, and Nikki will probably kill me if I mess the main site up now! But when I go 4.7 I will update it!

Notes...

• This code is new - there might be bugs, so test it first. If you do find anything untoward let me know!
• If you downloaded my earlier hacked mailhandler module then you must go back to the regular version before using mailsave. You can get mailhandler here.
• If you want automatic conversion to image nodes then you need image. You can get that here.
• Ready to go? Download the zip file to get mailsave.
• Using 4.7 already? You might be interested in the new mobile media blog module that is being developed. It borrows from the code that I wrote, which I'm quite chuffed about.