Nicholas Pike

So it’s no secret that I have been slaving away on a few new projects for the last couple weeks – one of them is actually to a point where I have something to show!  First a little background information:

The MobileMail application on the iPhone is able to receive attachments via email, and if they are images then it will let you view them inline in the email message.  But thats it.

iExtractor is an application that will let you extract attachments from your iPhone and save them to any location of your desire.

A few interesting uses:

• Save emailed images to a Photo album (probably limited to the CameraRoll album)
• Save pdfs to local storage to view in a PDF Reader
• Save other binary files into the iphone file system (useful for modification of iPhone software)

Application Status

Currently all the application does is identify the encoded attachments stored by MobileMail.app and list them.  The next step will involve check the Mail database to retrieve their original file names, decoding them to their original form, and saving them to your desired location.

I’ve implemented most of the above separately, but need to integrate it into the UI now.

In a few days I should have an actual application for testing on other iphone/ipods.