[Zope] send object via dtml as Mail attachment

[Flynt]

Marcus Schopen wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> trying to figure out how to send a DTMLDocument
> as Mail HTML-Attachment.
> Problem: Content of index.html object is placed in the body of the mail
> not atteched.
> 
> <dtml-sendmail mailhost="MailHost">
> To: me <marcus.schopen@uni-bielefeld.de>
> From: me <marcus.schopen@uni-bielefeld.de>
> Subject: Test
> 
> Moin
> 
>   <dtml-mime type=text/html encode="7bit" name=index.html>
>   <dtml-var index.html>
>   </dtml-mime>
> 
> </dtml-sendmail>
> 
> mail sent.

Hi Marcus

What about (skip the comments after ###):

<dtml-sendmail mailhost="MailHost">
To: me <marcus.schopen@uni-bielefeld.de>
Date: <dtml-var ZopeTime fmt="rfc822"> ### Date is essential in emails
;-)
From: me <marcus.schopen@uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: Test
<dtml-mime type="text/plain" encode="7bit">   #### Here comes text in
body

Moin,
Let me bother you with this nice attachment !  ###After that the
attachment
 
<dtml-boundary type="application/octet-stream" disposition="attachment"
encode="base64" filename_expr="index.html"><dtml-var
expr="index.html.read()"></dtml-mime>
</dtml-sendmail>

OK, i did not test that, but it might work. Of course you got the file
content in the body of your email message, because you have put it there
deliberately. Watch in the above especially, how some text body (with
MIME type text/plain is completely separate from an attachment part of
the email (with MIME type application/octet-stream).

You might perhaps like to change this *application/octet-stream* to 
*text/html* if you want so send html files only.

One last note: Be very cautious about *empty line* or *no empty line
between*. This can make email sending happening or preventing,
especially with MIME type stuff ! I ran also into troubles once, only
because I had intended lines (as in the example in the Zope Book, which
was simply *not* working, until I kicked out all the line intendations).
And still another: the help text for *MIME* in the API/DTML help of Zope
has a bug in the example, they give at the end.

HTH

--Flynt--