[ale] Sendnig attachments via Net::SMTP

[Mike Harrison]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Normally I generate certificate requests using openssl and mail it to
> the person requesting it.  I've been working on a simple program to send
> the key and the cert as attachments via email.  I have a slight problem.
> I see in debug mode of Net::SMTP that I am sending those files but when
> we receive them they show up as being 0 bytes, empty.  I'm sure that I'm
> not creating the mime types correctly.  The email does show and
> attachment but nothing is in those attachments!!!


The mime type seperator may be the difference.
I'm doing it in PHP this way:

$boundary='=' . md5( uniqid("boundary") ); 
$message .= "--$boundary\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" ;
$message .= "$mailbody\n\n" ;
$message .= "--$boundary\nContent-Type: text/html; name=\"message.html\" ; charset=iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\nContent-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"message.html\"\n\n" ;
$message .= "$mailhtml\n\n" ;
$message .= "--$boundary\nContent-Type: text/xml; name=\"message.xml\"; charset=iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\nContent-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"message.xml\"\n\n" ;
$message .= "$mailxml\n\n" ;
$message .= "--$boundary\n" ;

Do you need the filename? I think I did.

http://www.geeklabs.com/code/gl-formmail.php.txt