# Email photo to upload

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-photo-to-upload/165809>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 17, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-photo-to-upload/165809 "2009-04-17T18:33:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/northband)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-photo-to-upload/165809/1 "2009-04-17T18:33:43Z")

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Hi -

I am curious has anyone worked on a project where you emailed a photo  
to your app - which then takes the attached image and attaches it to  
your account?

For instance, I have a photo gallery that I want to send images from  
my cellphone to. I need to authenticate that the email came from the  
one that’s on record, if so, upload the photo to my account.

Any ideas/help appreciated.

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**Author:** ![northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/northband)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-photo-to-upload/165809/2 "2009-04-18T05:15:31Z")

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, northband [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Any ideas/help appreciated.
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> -NB

Yes, have a look at MailFetcher  
([GitHub - siannopollo/mail\_fetcher: A plugin for accessing POP3/IMAP accounts in rails](http://github.com/siannopollo/mail_fetcher/tree/master)) and the mms2r  
gem which will pull photos from cellphone MMS messages

Andrew T.  
[http://ramblingsonrails.com](http://ramblingsonrails.com)  
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtimberlake](http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtimberlake)

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education” - Mark Twain

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**Author:** ![northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/northband)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-photo-to-upload/165809/3 "2009-04-23T15:14:27Z")

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Thanks - Andrew, these are good leads.

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On Apr 17, 11:14 pm, Andrew T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)