Scheduled renaming and emailing of files

[Stern]

I've got a fax server that dumps all faxes in pdf format into a particular folder when they arrive. It names the files in the format: MonthDayYearHoursMinutesSecondAM/PM.pdf

What I want to do is first of all rename the files like this:

YearMonthDay - Serial#.pdf

and then email them as an attachment to a particular email address, preferably with the subject line also being in the YearMonthDay - Serial format.


Does anyone have any suggestions whatsoever as to how to do this? I'm using Snappy Fax as a fax server, unfortunately it doesn't have any options for renaming the file, otherwise I would be able to do everything using that.

The system is running on WinXP Home SP3.

Any help greatly appreciated,

Stern

 

[Nothinman]

Where do you plan on getting the serial # from?

 

[Stern]

I'm not sure what I'm going to use for that yet. Would it be possible to just have it so I can use a running total for it? i.e. the first fax is #1, the second #2 etc?

 

[Nothinman]

Ah, I thought you were talking about getting something from inside of the PDF.

I don't know of a particular product that'll do that but it shouldn't be hard to script.

 

[Stern]

So, anyone able to point me in the right direction for how to script something like this? I imagine renaming and moving the file can't be so hard, but emailing and (I just remembered) printing it to a network printer?