Seamonkey Mail

[smokey01]

Is there some way to import directly from a document scanner.

I know how to scan a document or image and attach it to an email but I am trying to get the data directly from the scanner. Is there a setting or a plugin available?

Thanks

[norgo]

Hi @smokey01

would be fine but I've never heard of such a plugin for Seamonkey.

But it's possible to send directly from XSane as an email.
You could send a copy of the documents to your own email address.
Only an idea.

http://www.xsane.org/doc/sane-xsane-setup-email-doc.html

[smokey01]

Thanks norgo.

I am familiar with the email function and it works quite well. Unfortunately it doesn't have an address book or spell check. Sending emails from xsane to onesself is a good option which also works well.

I was hoping to find a scanning plugin for seamonkey mail. I guess one doesn't exist.

I suppose I could write a script that executes xsane mail then loads seamonkey mail with the attachements. Too much work for little gain.

Cheers

[matchpoint]

Smokey, maybe your scanner has this (Mochi) kind of option? Sounds possible, but scanner specific.

[norgo]

Hi @smokey01

Today I had a look at seamonkey's help page.
The interesting part for your project:

Usage: seamonkey [ options ... ] [URL]

-compose [ <options> ] Compose a mail or news message. Options are specified
as string "option='value,...',option=value,..." and
include: from, to, cc, bcc, newsgroups, subject, body,
message (file), attachment (file), format (html | text).

I tried this:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
seamonkey -compose "to=john@example.com,subject='testmail',body='this is a test mail',attachment='/root/my-applications/test.txt',format='text'"

worked really good and an ideal condition for a nice script

[smokey01]

@norgo that's pretty much what I had in mind for a script except I would do the xsane bit first.
@matchpoint thanks for your input. I will check it out.