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Old 09-25-2006
Problems using multipart/mixed
Hi all

I'm having trouble using MIME's multipart/mixed content type. I just try to send an email with a common body text together with an attachment (.gif). The only output I get is an empty email with no text and an invalid attachment (MS Outlook says it doesn't recognize the attachment type). Both text body and attachment show up when sent separately (i.e. not using muiltipart/mixed) which should prove my encoding is correct.

Here is the code:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh 
 
echo "To: \"User\" <user@domain.com>" > mailtest 
echo "Subject: Testing attachments" >> mailtest 
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0" >> mailtest 
echo "From: \"My Test\" <bass@europolitan.se>" >> mailtest 
echo "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"sendfile-attachment-boundary\"" >> mailtest 
 
echo "--sendfile-attachment-boundary" >> mailtest 
echo "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"" >> mailtest 
echo "Hello how are you?" >> mailtest 
 
echo "--sendfile-attachment-boundary" >> mailtest 
echo "Content-Type: image/gif; name=\"header_logo_trans.gif\"" >> mailtest 
echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" >> mailtest 
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment" >> mailtest 
base64-1.4/base64 -e header_logo_trans.gif >> mailtest 
echo "--sendfile-attachment-boundary--" >> mailtest 
 
cat mailtest | mail user@domain.com 
 
exit 0

Now I just wonder if anybody on this forum could easily identify the error (if there is one Smilie ). I´ve searched for hours on the internet and found some examples but it mostly tended to say my above code was correct...

Many thanks,
Yann

PS: I first searched for an answer in the FAQ and found a topic. However I didn't feel more clever having read it Smilie
Last edited by Indalecio; 09-25-2006 at 09:42 AM..
# 2  
Old 09-25-2006
Have a look at this post.
# 3  
Old 09-26-2006
Thank you for your reply!
I could finally make it work thanks to the post you refered to. I had in fact too few boundaries within my email structure.
Cheers,
Yann
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