Server strips data from attachments, why?

[kilbey1]

This is the strangest thing. Typically, you can send an attachment using the mail() function and be hunky dory.

However, after much testing, we determined that after switching ISPs, I'll have to change my mail script to send attachments in 3 steps:
a. upload to /tmp/ directory
b. open file and attach to email
c. delete from /tmp/ after mail is sent

It's the oddest thing; is there something they should be checking? It seems rather convoluted here.

My mail script is totally finished and worked on every ISP up to this point. Can anyone direct me to the necessary steps I'll need to take to upload the attachment, open it and attach, and then delete from tmp? I've only done uploads through direct form submission, but I'll assume the principle is the same.

TIA,
Eve

[tsinka]

Hi,

please post the script (or at least the part that does the mail stuff).

Thomas

[kilbey1]

I will post both for you - the original, and the one I just finished that uploads to a directory before attaching.

The second one works for attachments now, but no other form data comes through in end result.

[kilbey1]

I had some fields commented out in the 2nd one (oppr_upload.php). That seemed to solve the problem for that one.

Still can't figure out why the first one worked great, and suddenly broke.

[sholodak]

This might be off track (seeing as I didn't look through your code), but could this be because your new ISP is limiting the amount of memory that a PHP script is allowed to use?

Throw an error_reporting(E_ALL); at the top of your script and see if you get any messages like this. It could be that your trying to hold an attachment in memory in between the script being uploaded and the mail being sent.

Does the new script work with small attachments but not larger ones?

Scott

[kilbey1]

They told me the limit is 20mb, which I definitely haven't reached. 🙂