emailing sav files, wont work?

[Pezmc]

Mailing sav files wont work but when I change the extension of the file to .txt it does work.

See Below Script:

//Attachment version of message
			$extension=explode (".", file.sav); 
			$countdot=count($extension)-1;
			$extension=$extension[$countdot];
			$headers .= "--{$boundary}\r\n" .
				"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n" .
				"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n" .
				"Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.sav"\r\n";
			$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('backup/file.sav)));
			$headers .= "\r\n --{$boundary}--";
	}

if (!mail("[e-mail]", "Test", "", $headers)) { 
	$erreur++; $erreurmsg.='There was a problem sending your email please try again.<br>'; 
}	

(As part of bigger script that deals with all the headers etc...)

The above script sends a email to the email address, I can pick it up. Gmail shows the clip logo (attachment), but when I view the actual email no attached files are shown. However if I change this line:

"Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.sav"\r\n";

to this:

"Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.txt"\r\n";

the entire script works and I recieve the file but as a txt.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get sav files to be mailed. I have tried sending them using gmail (it works fine) and reading the mime but it is exactly the same as mine.

Please tell me whats wrong!

[big_nerd]

Here is something I've used...

function send_mail($emailaddress, $fromname, $fromaddress, $emailsubject, $body, $attachments=false) {
  $eol="\r\n";
  $mime_boundary=md5(time());

  # Common Headers
  $headers .= 'From: '.$fromname.'<'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol;
  $headers .= 'Reply-To: Manual Request<'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol;
  $headers .= 'Return-Path: MyName<'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol;    // these two to set reply address
  $headers .= "Message-ID: <".$now." TheSystem@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].">".$eol;
  $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$eol;          // These two to help avoid spam-filters

  # Boundry for marking the split & Multitype Headers
  $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n'.$eol;
  $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"".$eol;

  $msg = "";      

  if ($attachments !== false)
  {

   for($i=0; $i < count($attachments); $i++)
   {
	 if (is_file($attachments[$i]["file"]))
	 {  
	   # File for Attachment
	   $file_name = substr($attachments[$i]["file"], (strrpos($attachments[$i]["file"], "/")+1));

   $handle=fopen($attachments[$i]["file"], 'rb');
   $f_contents=fread($handle, filesize($attachments[$i]["file"]));
   $f_contents=chunk_split(base64_encode($f_contents));    //Encode The Data For Transition using base64_encode();
   fclose($handle);

   # Attachment
   $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol;
   $msg .= "Content-Type: ".$attachments[$i]["content_type"]."; name=\"".$file_name."\"".$eol;
   $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
   $msg .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".$file_name."\"".$eol.$eol; // !! This line needs TWO end of lines !! IMPORTANT !!
   $msg .= $f_contents.$eol.$eol;

 }
   }
  }

  # Setup for text OR html
  $msg .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative".$eol;

  # Text Version
  $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol;
  $msg .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol;
  $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol;
  $msg .= strip_tags(str_replace("<br>", "\n", $body)).$eol.$eol;

  # HTML Version
  /*
  $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary.$eol;
  $msg .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol;
  $msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol;
  $msg .= $body.$eol.$eol;
  */
  # Finished
  $msg .= "--".$mime_boundary."--".$eol.$eol;  // finish with two eol's for better security. see Injection.

  # SEND THE EMAIL
  ini_set(sendmail_from,$fromaddress);  // the INI lines are to force the From Address to be used !
  mail($emailaddress, $emailsubject, $msg, $headers);
  ini_restore(sendmail_from);
  //echo "mail send";
}

This was off of PHP.NET. I can't see that you're doing anythign wrong, but herpas this can help.

You would use an array for the file include(s)

i.e.

$attachment = array(array("file"=>"file.sav", "content_type"=>"application/octet-stream"));

I hope this helps a little bit..

I've never had an issue with sending ANY files with this.

You can see the origional post here in the user's comments.

[Pezmc]

thanks, I would have prefered a code fix but this will have to do! Thanks again,

[Pezmc]

The script you gave me doesn't work at all 😛

any others I could try?

[Pezmc]

I belive that my host has disabled my emailing due to spam. Really because I sent about 250 emails to my self tryng to get the script to work.

I have sent emails to them demanding it be returned!

[big_nerd]

Pezmc,

Well if you see the content-transfer encoding, Yours says base64, and the code I found has 8bit,

What I would recommend you do (what I would do) is try looking over the differences in the email headers.. I beleive you will find that there may be one small difference that makes it work.

At least you can get it going (with this)

Also, if you feel that it has been resolved, please mark the thread resolved.