mailattachments with PHP4

Anon

Hi,

has anybody an idea, why mailattachments are not readable after sending through the mail() function of PHP4?

I have tried several very famous script for accomplishing the job (Richard Heyes HTML Mime Mail Class, Sascha Schumanns and Tobias Ratschillers Class mime_mail). All of them work fine with PHP3, but all produce corrupted attachments with PHP4.

I have also tried the PHP3 default setting for sendmail_path (only -t, not -t -i)

The programm authors don´t seem to replay my question. So I hope someone of you has a solution. Perhaps I forgot a configue option or so. My options are:
'--with-apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd' '--with-pspell' '--with-zlib' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd=/usr/local' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib' '--with-tff-dir=/usr/lib' '--with-png-dir=/usr/lib' '--with-imap' '--with-ldap' '--with-mysql' '--enable-trans-sid' '--with-openssl' '--enable-sockets' '--with-regex=php' '--with-swf=/usr/local' '--enable-sysvsem=yes' '--enable-sysvshm=yes' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-track-vars'

Thanks,
Rainer

Anon

I have been sending mail with the class script from this site.

It mails jpg's and word documents without any problem. I am using PHP4.0.2 Module under apache/Linux.

The one setting we stuck with was the mime type.

If you e-mail me I will send some source

$mail->add_attachment("$attachment", "cv.doc", "image/jpeg");

Regards
Darren
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Anon

Thank you,

but I have the sources of the mail class from this site. But now I know, that it is no bug. With the same class, I get bad attachments, but only with binary files. Do you have nay other ideas?

Thanks,
Rainer

Anon

We are sending all sorts of binary files.

What mime type are you trying to use?

Darren
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Anon

For example if I user the HTML Mime Mail class 1.30 from Richard Heyes with

$mail->add_attachment
($attachment,
'example.zip',
'application/octet-stream');

example.zip will not be readable after arrival. This is exactly out of the example included in the distribution of this class.

Thanks,
Rainer

Anon

As I said in my last e-mail we have got it to work using :-
mail->add_attachment("$attachment", "cv.doc", "image/jpeg");

seems to work for any type of attachment

Darren

Anon

Ok, I also tried it out with image/jpeg while I am sending a jpeg-image but with the same result -> corrupted attachment :-(

Thanks,
Rainer

Anon

I am not sure then. We had this in the beginning and when I included the sendmail code in a different file and just included the class it worked fine, however all on the same page caused corruption

Regards

Darren

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Anon

Thanks,

but I already trried it on about 10 different pages in 3 or 4 different folders. I think this cannot be the solution. Did you have different configurations (Apache/PHP/Savemode) for that files?

Thanks,
Rainer

Anon

Hello,

I got the same problem and could figure out how to send a correct GIF file in attachment using PHP 4.
Have any of you sorted out the issue ?

Thank you in advance for any tips you might give me.

Olivier

Anon

No sorry,

but you say the same script works with PHP3 on your maschine but produces corrupted mail attachments with PHP4 on the same maschine except attached gifs?

Which script did you use?

Thanks,
Rainer

Anon

Rainer,

Sorry to answer late. I "use" (for the moment the word is a little bit overrated) a mime mail class written by
Copyright (c) Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de>.

This email doesn't work anymore so i couldn't get in touch with him.

Regards,
Olivier

Anon

OK, thats very exciting...

I tried the same piece of code, but also some other. Always the same:
Without modifing the code everything works well under PHP3 (SuSE6.4 precomplied Apache version). But with several versions of PHP4 attachments get corrupted.
This is holy @!#$, because I need this very quickly, but I am tring for several months now.
I tried to contact all the authors of the code I tried, but nobody answers.
I posted in all frequented newsgroups, but nobody could help me. (Even only very few people tried to :-(
I know some people who work with the same code under PHP4 without any problems. They didn´t use any strange compile options (as I).
My Latin is now on the end. But I have to get it to work. I never had a problem with PHP which coul´dn´t be resolved. So I have to keep tring....

Thanks,
Rainer

Anon

Dear Rainer,

I worked hard yesterday to make it working on my configuration. Finally, I succeeded but with a new and more sophisticated version of the script so I don't know exactly what is the problem with the script I used before. But I do know that:
- the problem occured when changing from one linux box to another;
- it is not related to PHP3 or PHP4 (the same bad behaviour occured with both configuration);
- the sendmail config was different: the problem occured while i upgraded to sendmail 8.9 but this not a proof at all.
I suppose i could examine in detail both version of the script to see what is the crippling difference but i spent already to much time on it.

Here is the script location: http://www.heyes-computing.net/scripts/

HTML Mime Mail class
** Version.......: 1.33

FYI you can choose two different methods to send the mail:
1) by using a SMTP class (provided with the script) to directly connect to the SMTP server
2) by using the built in mail function of PHP
I get it to work with the second method since the SMTP object method timed out systematically.

Hope this helps

Regards

Olivier