How to handle MMS with a series of images and captions
mfb - October 9, 2008 - 19:31
| Project: | Mailsave |
| Version: | 6.x-1.3 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
Description
I'd like to figure out how to handle an MMS message consisting of a series of images and captions. This is basically a series of inline attachments: jpeg, text, jpeg, text, jpeg, text, jpeg, text.
Right now, all the text attachments after the first are simply discarded. The first caption appears as the node body.
What I would like to do is something like, pre-process the message and set any text attachment that follows a jpeg attachment as the description for its preceeding jpeg. Then process the message with mailsave_to_imagefield to save all the images and their descriptions.
Is there interest in mailsave having this functionality built-in or should I just build a custom module to do what I need?
#1
I ended up writing a small custom module with a hook_mailsave() implementation to handle this. But I did make a small patch on mailsave module, which allows my hook_mailsave() to merge data from the text parts in $node->mimeparts into the right place in the $node object.