My personal experience with MIME attachments is to first send an email with mime attachment from an email program, view the message source and then work out what I need Zope to send. Just a quick and dirty method. :-) Chui Jason Spisak wrote:

Thanks Phil.

I had come across this before. I was hoping to do a format conversion from within Zope rather than going to the filesystem. But, I've come to the comclusion that it's not that HTML format isn't palattable enough, it's that the mime tag isn't displaying things as attachments. And that is prompting people to ask for a "more comaptible" format. Nothing is probably more universal than HTML.

All my best,

Jason

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Hannu,

Where do you use Mimetools in the chain - is Zope's mailhost with its mime support not enough

I use the mime tag, but what it sends is not readable by all mail readers. I use this code: <!--#sendmail smtphost="mail.mydomain.com"--> From:<<!--#var email_from-->> Subject:<!--#var email_subject--> To:<<!--#var email_to-->> <!--#mime type=text/plain encode=7bit--> <!--#email_body--> <!--#boundary type=text/html disposition=attachment encode=base64--> <!--#var my_document--> <!--#/mime--> <!--#/sendmail--> What shows up for the second part is this: --192.168.8.9.503.18816.937995265.266.30862 Content-Type: text/html Content-Disposition: attatchment Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 PEhUTUw+PEhFQUQ+PFRJVExFPkhUTUwgUmVzdW1lPC9USVRMRT4KICAgPE1FVEEgSFRUUC1FUVVJ Vj0iQ29udGVudC1UeXBlIiBDT05URU5UPSJ0ZXh0L2h0bWw7IGNoYXJzZXQ9aXNvLTg4NTktMSI+ CjwvSEVBRD48Qk9EWSBCR0NPTE... etc, etc, etc... It's not a downloadable attatchment. The mime tag isn't doing something right.

I don't think that RTF is more universally readable than HTML.

I wholeheartedly agree. It's just that uneducated people are seeing this base64 encoding, (or in 7bit it comes out as HTML code) and insisting that it needs to be readable by MSword. blah, blah. I want to do it with html, but mimetools is preventing a lot of people form receiving it. All my best, Jason Spisak webmaster@hiretechs.com

Evan, I used to have it spelled that wrong way. It was a copy paste from an old mail. The code is a direct cut/paste. Here I'll send you one from Zope so you can see. jason

Jason Spisak wrote: [snippage]

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<!--#boundary type=text/html disposition=attachment encode=base64-->

[snipt]

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--192.168.8.9.503.18816.937995265.266.30862 Content-Type: text/html Content-Disposition: attatchment Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

This is an utter guess, but is the second quoted bit here an actual cut&paste and the first bit a reconstruction?

I ask because "attachment" is misspelled in the header, but not in your tag, and they ought to be identical. If it is really misspelled in both, that could be your problem.

Jason Spisak webmaster@hiretechs.com