Sending mail with an attachment

[p2]

Hi,

I know how to send a file as an attachment when the file is in my file
system.

Now I want to send data as attachment without saving it to the
filesystem first.

Under UNIX shell what I do is uuencode and dump the output at the end
of the 'data' part of the message.

How can I convert the string to an attachment without the mediation of
the filesystem?

(The goal is to allow users to request data by email)

Thank you all,

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** p2 wrote/escribió (8 Aug 2005 01:00:04 -0700):

Now I want to send data as attachment without saving it to the
filesystem first.

Under UNIX shell what I do is uuencode and dump the output at the end
of the 'data' part of the message.

How can I convert the string to an attachment without the mediation of
the filesystem?

So, your data is not in a file and apparently it's not in a string (or you
wouldn't be asking). Where is it then?
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[joppeaarts]

Hello,

I know that if you send an attachment the file will transformed to
binary data and encoded in some sort of way. If the email has the
neccesary headers (MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=9312495342k5hk45h8\r\n) and is split in to two parts (one
text, one attachment) by the boundary.
Then give the attachment part the right headers (Content type=<type of
file>; name=<filename>\r\nContent-transfer-encoding:
base64\r\nContent-disposition: attachment; filename=<filename>\r\n\r\n)
followed by the data (chunk_split(base64encode($data)))

These are the steps you will have to take.

Good luck!

[bhelsley]

p2 wrote:

Hi,

I know how to send a file as an attachment when the file is in my file
system.

Now I want to send data as attachment without saving it to the
filesystem first.

Under UNIX shell what I do is uuencode and dump the output at the end
of the 'data' part of the message.

How can I convert the string to an attachment without the mediation of
the filesystem?

(The goal is to allow users to request data by email)

Thank you all,

I have a php class (source:
http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~y8r3/code/mailer.html) to handle sending
multi-part emails with attachments. It does not do what you are
looking for currently, but the necessary changes are pretty trivial.
You will, of course, need to know the content-type of your string,
etc.

I'm not sure if this will be helpful for you or not, but it might at
least provide a starting point if you need one.

-Ben

[p2]

Thank you all,

Eventually I did is:

$mail_msg .= "\nbegin 644 $filename\n";
$mail_msg .= convert_uuencode("$string");
$mail_msg .= "\n`\nend";

But this work with PHP5 only. The function convert_uuencode is new.

Still working on a solution for PHP4.

Thanks.

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

p2 (an*****@gmail.com) wrote:
: Thank you all,

: Eventually I did is:

: $mail_msg .= "\nbegin 644 $filename\n";
: $mail_msg .= convert_uuencode("$string");
: $mail_msg .= "\n`\nend";

: But this work with PHP5 only. The function convert_uuencode is new.

It also assumes that the mail client does uudecoding. Since uu(en/de)code
is not a standard, you cannot be sure it will always do what you wish.

If possible you should use MIME encoding.
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