From: "Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have a script that generates a pdf file from html.
>
> It generates it for viewing perfect.
> It will email it also.
>
> However when I email it a .dat extension is added and it won;t work in
> Acrobat.
I bet it's the mail client who adds the .dat extension, not
Mail::Sender.
> If I view the source of the view version and viwe the source of the
> dat file they seem to be identicle. The html is generated on the fly
> based on databads enetries and then the pdf code is created form that
> using the program htmldoc.
>
> If I just remove the extension so it's a .pdf file Acrobat still can't
> read it.
>
> Is there any way to specify what the attached file name should be with
> out it adding the .dat ? What am I missing?
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
> Here is my code :
>
> # works great
> print "Content-type: application/pdf\n\n";
> print $contract_html_pdf;
> exit;
>
> # works good except for it sends 'Infiniplex.pdf.dat' instead of
> # Infiniplex.pdf
>
> $sender = new Mail::Sender {smtp => "$smtp_serv", from =>
> "$from"};
> $sender->OpenMultipart({subject => "$subject", to =>
> "$email_to"}); $sender->Body({
> ctype => 'text/plain',
> msg => "$text"
> });
> $sender->Part({
> ctype => 'application/pdf',
> description => 'Infiniplex.pdf',
> disposition => 'attachment',
disposition => 'attachment; filename=Infiniplex.pdf',
encoding => 'Base64',
> msg => "$contract_html_pdf"
> });
> $sender->Close();
You should specify the filename inside the disposition header.
The mail client aparently uses the description to create a name of
the file if you don't and appends .dat to specify it doesn't really
know what type of file it is.
Second problem is that the default encoding for ->Part() is 7BIT.
Which basicaly means "Don't encode the data and hope for best". PDF
is a binary format so you should use Base64 encoding to ensure it
will get through fine.
HTH, Jenda
P.S.: One more thing to add to the docs, right ? :-)
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