in reply to saving pdf attachments

What are you using to parse your mail messages? Also if you save/cut and paste the whole message into a doc.zip, you should be able to open it with WinZip (GOK as to why) and see all the parts. Check you can do the extract to a valid PDF just to be sure you have valid attachments.

cheers

tachyon

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Re: Re: saving pdf attachments
by busch4al (Novice) on Feb 27, 2003 at 14:56 UTC
    Hi Tachyon, I am using my own MimeReader.pm (I got frustrated trying to get Mime::Tools to work.) I have
    all the parts and can save binary, text, quoted-printable (usually, just having trouble with pdfs).
    I did take the email in Outlook and saved the troublesome attachment, and it is valid. I also compared that file to the
    one I save (that doesn't work), and found that the line-endings are the probable problem. Just not sure what about them
    is wrong.
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      OK so the problem is that your MimeReader.pm can not cope with what the MIME it is getting.

      You probably are not parsing the corrupt MIME that some mail clients send 'correctly'! I have a webmail app with its own MIME parser built in. It has proven pretty reliable in practice at extracting attachemnts. Drop me a line and I will send you the code. Email jfreeman@tassie.net.au

      cheers

      tachyon

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        Hi Tachyon, I figured out the problem. For pdf files at least, the quoted-printable format was missing an "=" at the end of one or two lines. So, when I ran it through the MIME::QuotedPrint::decode_qp, the extra control-M (\r) was getting stripped. I'm not sure why it works, but I'm doing a s/\n$/\r\n/ on lines that don't end with =.

        Thanks for all the help to everyone!

        busch4al

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