[Zope] Conditional dtml-boundary in dtml-sendmail

Thu Apr 10 06:43:51 EDT 2008

The email library should be available to use with a Script (Python) and can
be done all within the ZMI. Otherwise maybe use dtml-try?

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Josef Meile <jmeile at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list
>
> I'm trying to send a multi-part email after having submitted a
> form. In that form, the user will give some basic information
> from him, then he will be able to send at most three files.
>
> This is my dtml-method to send email after having submitted the
> data:
>
> <dtml-let email="REQUEST.get('aba_email_txt').encode('utf-8')"
>          name="REQUEST.get('aau_name_txt').encode('utf-8')"
>          lastName="REQUEST.get('aat_vorname_txt').encode('utf-8')"
>          company="REQUEST.get('aas_firma_txt').encode('utf-8')"
>          file1="REQUEST.get('aap_dateien_anhang_dat')"
>          file2="REQUEST.get('aaq_dateien_anhang_dat')"
>          file3="REQUEST.get('aar_dateien_anhang_dat')">
>
> <dtml-sendmail smtphost="my_host.my_domain.com">
> To: my_mail at my_domain.com
> From: &dtml-email;
> Subject: Anfrage &dtml-name; &dtml-lastName; - &dtml-company;
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> <dtml-mime type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> <html>
>  <body>
>    Some html code comes here
>  </body>
> </html>
> <dtml-boundary type="application/octet-stream" disposition="attachment"
>               filename_expr="file1.filename"
> ><dtml-var "file1.read()"><dtml-boundary type="application/octet-stream"
> disposition="attachment"
>               filename_expr="file2.filename"
> ><dtml-var "file2.read()"><dtml-boundary type="application/octet-stream"
> disposition="attachment"
>               filename_expr="file3.filename"
> ><dtml-var "file3.read()"></dtml-mime>
> </dtml-sendmail>
> </dtml-let>
>
> Let's say that the user doesn't submit file3, on that case, zope will
> generate something like this: "some_ramdom_id.dat" and it will attach
> an empty file. I tried something like this:
>
> <dtml-if "file1.filename not in ['', None]"><dtml-boundary
>  type="application/octet-stream" disposition="attachment"
>  filename_expr="file1.filename"
> ><dtml-var "file1.read()"></dtml-if>
>
> However when I try to save, zope fails and says:
>
> """
> Error Type: Document Template Parse Error
> Error Value: Unexpected tag, for tag <dtml-boundary
> type="application/octet-stream" disposition="attachment"
> filename_expr="file1.filename" >, on line 215 of sendAnfrage
> """
>
> The only way I found to cope with this was doing a script to validate if a
> file has whether a name or not, then I will return a dictionary like this:
> {'name': real_name_or_dummy_name, 'data': <file.read()>_or_dummy_text}
>
> So, I feed the boundary with a dummy file when no file was uploaded. I
> don't
> really like to send dummy files since it may confuse the person receiving
> the emails. Is there any better way of achieving this? Please note that
> since I'm working in the zmi and I'm not the administrator of the machine
> where my page is hosted, I can only use dtml to send mail :-(, thus using
> the python mail library isn't an option on this case.
>
> Best regards
> Josef
>
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