Email file from Server

[Jabbamonkey]

I'm trying to email a file from the server. So far I put together something, but I can't seem to get it to work. I think the problem may lie in the fopen, or fread functions below (I'm not very familiar with either). Can someone check out these three lines and let me know what's wrong.

The email sends fine, and the email has an attachment, but the attachment is always corrupted in some way (image is broken, zip file wont open, etc.)

Also, I believe the MIME encoding is fine, but it would be great if someone took a second look at that. Thanks alot.

Jabbamonkey

$file_name; // Name of the file on the server, determined before 
$file_type;  // File type, determined before 
$pathonserver = "/usr/home/v1/x1234567/html/upload/"; 
$fileonserver = $pathonserver."".$file_name; 

$email_from = "Someone"; // Who the email is from 
$email_subject = "Email Attachment from Server"; 
$email_message = "Testing Attachment from Server"; 

$email_to = "[e-mail]"; 

// #### POSSIBLE PROBLEM #### 
$file = fopen($fileonserver,'rb');  

$data = fread($file,filesize($fileonserver));  

fclose($file);  

$semi_rand = md5(time());  

$mime_boundary = "==_=_Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";  

$headers = "From: " . $email_from . 
      "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .  

      "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .  

      " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";  

$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));  

$email_message = "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .  

     "Content-Type: text/html;\n" . 
     " charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .  

     "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . 
     $email_message . "\n\n" . 

 "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .  
 "Content-Type: {$file_type};\n" .  
 " name=\"{$file_name}\"\n" .  
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" . 
 "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . 
 " filename=\"{$file_name}\"\n" . 
 // $data . "\n\n" . 
 "\n\n" .  
 "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";  

$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);  

[simonsky]

some suggestion:
1) try to echo back the $email_message to ckeck the encoding

2) \r\n instead of \n will be a better idea

3) the \n in

" filename=\"{$file_name}\"\n" .

should be \r\n

Hope the above helps.

Simonsky

[Jabbamonkey]

Still not working. When I changed the \n to \r\n, the email doesn't even send an attachment anymore (corrupted, or not). The enire message of the email I recieve now contains all the MIME copy (below). I think the MIME formatting was fine before, but there was a problem calling the file...

I also echo'ed back the message, and got the following...
(it looks fine to me)

Messge:
--===Multipart_Boundary_xadf91f5b5d1aa91f00489e65fab2399dx
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Testing web form from uploadfile1.php

--===Multipart_Boundary_xadf91f5b5d1aa91f00489e65fab2399dx
Content-Type: image/pjpeg;
name="fpx02572_b.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="fpx02572_b.jpg"

--===Multipart_Boundary_xadf91f5b5d1aa91f00489e65fab2399dx--

From: DJ
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="===Multipart_Boundary_xadf91f5b5d1aa91f00489e65fab2399dx"

[Aeiri]

You are telling them that the attachment is base64 encoded, but you have not encoded it into base64...

Use:

$file=fopen($filename,"r");
$data=base64_encode(fread($file,filesize($filename)));

Instead of what you have.

Hope this helps.

[Jabbamonkey]

I figured out what it was.

The permissions for the folder where the file was being stored was not set - so the file was never allowed to upload - hence, when the email was sent, the files never existed (no data).

Jabbamonkey