[Zope] attaching an image to an email

[knitti]

On 6/28/06, Kate Legere <klegere at kfpl.ca> wrote:
> I'm writing a form which allows the user to send an image attachment with
> their email...
>
> <form method=post action="sendPic" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
> <p>Attach: <input type="file" name="pic.jpg"></p>
>
> <p>Send to:</p>
> <p>
>    <input type="checkbox" name="send_to:list" value="mymail at mail.ca">
>   My email
> </p>
> <input type=submit value="Send Picture">
> </form>
>
>
> ------ it's handled with sendPic -----------
>
> <dtml-sendmail smtphost="mail.host.ca">
> To: art critic
> From: patron
> Subject: Art
>
> Hi, please take a look at my art and post it if you think it's good enough.
>
> <dtml-mime type=image/jpeg encode=base64 name=resume><dtml-var pic.jpg >
>   </dtml-mime>
>
> </dtml-sendmail>
>
> <p>Your image was sent.</p>
>
>
> --------- but it only delivers -------
>
> Hi, please take a look at my art and post it if you think it's good enough.
>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>     boundary="192.168.10.45.502.995.1151524502.277.30154"
>
>
> --192.168.10.45.502.995.1151524502.277.30154
> Content-Type: image/jpeg;
>     name="pic.jpg"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> PFpQdWJsaXNoZXIuSFRUUFJlcXVlc3QuRmlsZVVwbG9hZCBpbnN0YW5jZSBhdCAweDkzNjFmZDQ+
> CiAg
>
>
> ---------
> What am I doing wrong?

when you decode('base64') this string you get '<ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.
FileUpload instance at 0x9361fd4>\n  '  which means, that you have to find
out, which method or attribute of FileUpload gives you the actual data.
(what you got is FileUpload.__repr__() or __str__())

--knitti