Public bug reported:
OpenERP 6.0.3 on Ubuntu 10.04
I am using smtpclient to send emails with attached pdf reports generated by
jasper_reports. The plan is to automatically send these reports by use of the
scheduler. I successfully receive the emails with attached report but I cannot
open the pdf in Thunderbird because the mimetype is set to
application/octet-stream. This is hardcoded in smtpclient.
The octet-stream opening problem is a well-known and long-standing 'feature' of
Thunderbird, I don't know if other MUAs suffer from it too but ultimately the
fault lies with the generating program as (I believe) the email RFCs require
the mimetype to properly describe the attachment.
At present you just pass a list of filenames as the attachment parameter to
send_email(). I think it should be changed to allow a list of dicts something
like this: [{'filename': '/tmp/file', 'maintype':'application', 'subtype':
'pdf'}, {...}] with application/octet-stream as the fallback.
** Affects: openobject-addons
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/909913
Title:
smtpclient attachment mimetype hardcoded
Status in OpenERP Addons (modules):
New
Bug description:
OpenERP 6.0.3 on Ubuntu 10.04
I am using smtpclient to send emails with attached pdf reports generated by
jasper_reports. The plan is to automatically send these reports by use of the
scheduler. I successfully receive the emails with attached report but I cannot
open the pdf in Thunderbird because the mimetype is set to
application/octet-stream. This is hardcoded in smtpclient.
The octet-stream opening problem is a well-known and long-standing 'feature'
of Thunderbird, I don't know if other MUAs suffer from it too but ultimately
the fault lies with the generating program as (I believe) the email RFCs
require the mimetype to properly describe the attachment.
At present you just pass a list of filenames as the attachment parameter to
send_email(). I think it should be changed to allow a list of dicts something
like this: [{'filename': '/tmp/file', 'maintype':'application', 'subtype':
'pdf'}, {...}] with application/octet-stream as the fallback.
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