corrupt file sending email attachment

Paul Lamonby

Hi,

I am sending a file from the server as an email attachment. The file
is being attached no problem and sending the email, but I get an error
when I try to open it saying it is corrupt. Obviuosly, the file is
fine on the server, so the attachment code I am using must be
corrupting it, but I dont know what it is:

// send email with attachment
function emailAttachment($to, $subject, $message, $name, $email,
$file) {
$fp = fopen($file, "rb");
$fcontent = fread($fp, filesize($file));
fclose($fp);
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($fcontent));
$mime_boundary = md5(uniqid(time()));
$file_name = basename($file);
$header = "From: " . $name . "<" . $email . ">\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n";
$header .= " boundary=\"" . $mime_boundary . "\"\r\n";
$content = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n\r\n";
$content .= "--" . $mime_boundary . "\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
$content .= $message . "\r\n\r\n";
$content .= "--" . $mime_boundary . "\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=\"" . $file_name .
"\"\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" .
$file_name . "\"\r\n\r\n";
$content .= $data . "\r\n";
$content .= "--" . $mime_boundary . "--";
if (mail($to, $subject, $content, $header)) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

I am receiving the email on a Mac, will this cause any errors?
I look forward to any help.

Paul

Jul 17 '05 #1

Manuel Lemos

Hello,

On 05/26/2004 12:31 PM, Paul Lamonby wrote:

Hi,

I am sending a file from the server as an email attachment. The file
is being attached no problem and sending the email, but I get an error
when I try to open it saying it is corrupt. Obviuosly, the file is
fine on the server, so the attachment code I am using must be
corrupting it, but I dont know what it is:

It is hard to tell. It seems correct.

You may want to try this throughly tested class that also supports
sending messages with attachments to see if you experience the same
problem. Just let me know if your problem is not solved:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

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Jul 17 '05 #2

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

pa**@popimages.com (Paul Lamonby) wrote in message news:<86**************************@posting.google. com>...

Hi,

I am sending a file from the server as an email attachment. The file
is being attached no problem and sending the email, but I get an error
when I try to open it saying it is corrupt.

<snip>

Perhaps you should try with <http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/>

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Jul 17 '05 #3

Terence

Dunno much about sending email attachments, but maybe it is a character
encoding problem. What type of character encoding does base64_encode()
return? In your header, you seem to be assuming it's western latin.
Maybe it's not.

have you tried removing chunk_split()?

Paul Lamonby wrote:

Hi,

I am sending a file from the server as an email attachment. The file
is being attached no problem and sending the email, but I get an error
when I try to open it saying it is corrupt. Obviuosly, the file is
fine on the server, so the attachment code I am using must be
corrupting it, but I dont know what it is:

// send email with attachment
function emailAttachment($to, $subject, $message, $name, $email,
$file) {
$fp = fopen($file, "rb");
$fcontent = fread($fp, filesize($file));
fclose($fp);
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($fcontent));
$mime_boundary = md5(uniqid(time()));
$file_name = basename($file);
$header = "From: " . $name . "<" . $email . ">\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n";
$header .= " boundary=\"" . $mime_boundary . "\"\r\n";
$content = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n\r\n";
$content .= "--" . $mime_boundary . "\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
$content .= $message . "\r\n\r\n";
$content .= "--" . $mime_boundary . "\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=\"" . $file_name .
"\"\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$content .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" .
$file_name . "\"\r\n\r\n";
$content .= $data . "\r\n";
$content .= "--" . $mime_boundary . "--";
if (mail($to, $subject, $content, $header)) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

I am receiving the email on a Mac, will this cause any errors?
I look forward to any help.

Paul

Jul 17 '05 #4