How can I filter mp3 attachments to a folder?
I receive many .mp3 attachments and would like to have them automatically filtered and moved from my inbox to an MP3 folder folder when they are received.
Is that possible?
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The "body" using contains gets access to the normally non visible body parts, so you could use a filter the check for the MIME type of MP3. So you could do a filter on "Content-Type: audio/mpeg;" But that is where it gets messy.
MP3 is a derivative on MPEG. So your files may be listed as audio/mpeg or audio/mp3 or a number of others.
This site list a few for HTML 5
http://voice.firefallpro.com/2012/03/html5-audio-video-mime-types.html
Wikipedia also has a table of audio mime type http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type
Unfortunately in a world of the internet not everyone uses the standards and there are always rugged individuals determined to do it their way. see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10688588/which-mime-type-should-i-use-for-mp3
Therefore you may receive email from some clients with the type application/octet stream and an expectation that the file name will decipher the content type (Like windows uses) and other subtle variations.
Thank you for the information. I will study, and see if I can get a clue.
Robert
FiltaQuilla may be useful if you find what you want to do is beyond the built-in filtering capabilities.