[iText-questions] Output a PDF directly to a email attachment with a correct MIME type

[Paul Black]

I've been on the javasoft web site and searched yahoo! but no-one seems to know how to over come this.... loads of folk want to find a solution !-)   Very simply, I want to create a PDF and attach it to an email using JavaMail (mail.jar, activation.jar etc).   I can create the PDF to a file then attach that without a problem; but when trying to attach the PDF directly from a ByteArrayOutputStream (ie. in memory - from another Class that creates the PDF to an OutputStream) to a BodyPart using the setDataHandler(...) etc it fails with exceptions relating to unsupported DCH. I can convert the output to a StringBuffer the .toString(), then set the type as text/plain and the email is sent - only the PDF is corrupt (it has bytes 0a 0d in place of 0a for newlines?). There's a file in the activation.jar - mimetypes.default that has some mime types listed but not application/pdf.... I don't know why there are so few types in there.   I know this isn't really related to the iText library, but it is useful to be able to attach a PDF and send it via email. Thanks for any help (especially code snippets!).   Paul   Paul Black B.Eng (Hons) Software Engineering   Advocates Library - IT Department, Parliament House, EDINBURGH, EH1 1RF ********************************************************************** Visit our website at http://www.advocates.org.uk This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. **********************************************************************