Upload a file temporarily

bodmin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I am using the MIME::Lite module to write an email programme.

I am allowing users to attach files to the emails.

Is there a way to send the mail with the attachment without uploading the file from the client to the server?

If not (which I presume not), is there a temporary folder which I can use (server is unix) were I can upload to, then once the email has been sent, delete the file automatically?

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Re: Upload a file temporarily by ChrisR (Hermit) on May 26, 2004 at 14:53 UTC
If you are useing CGI to get your parameters, which I hope you are, try the `tmpFileName` method of CGI. I have done the same thing but I used Mail::Sender.	[reply] [d/l]