I'm am sending an email with an attached ZIP file to my AOL email address using MIME::Lite. I do receive the email with the ZIP file attached, but the ZIP file is corrupted. :(

Now, what probably comes first to mind is that the ZIP file must have been created in a corrupted state, or that AOL is corrupting it. Well, I've checked that. My application also FTP's the ZIP file to an FTP site. If I manually connect to the FTP site, download the ZIP to my PC, I can open it, and extract the contents, and all of it is just as I would expect. If I email the ZIP file from my PC at work to my AOL account using MS Outlook, I can logon to AOL, open the email, download the attached ZIP file, and open it. If I email, using my MIME::Lite code, the ZIP file to my work email address, Outlook says the ZIP file is corrupted. So, that seems to me to leave MIME::Lite as the problem.

The following is not my exact code, I won't have access to it for a while, but it's pretty close, as I pretty much cut-and-pasted this code from the example at CPAN, changing just the file names, email addresses, etc to my situation. BTW, you'll notice a "Debug=>1" in the code below. That causes a BUNCH of stuff to be spit out, and I don't see anything in that which would indicate a problem.

Final comment, for now. The "debug output" indicates that Content-Type-Encoding is 'base64'. I read somewhere else that MIME::Lite "knows" to set that based on the the "Type => 'application/zip' specification in the code.

Thanks for any insight you can provide on this

Here's the code:

    ### Create a new multipart message:
    $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
        From    =>'me@myhost.com',
        To      =>'you@yourhost.com',
        Cc      =>'some@other.com, some@more.com',
        Subject =>'A message with 2 parts...',
        Type    =>'multipart/mixed'
    );

    ### Add parts (each "attach" has same arguments as "new"):
    $msg->attach(
        Type     =>'TEXT',
        Data     =>"Here's the ZIP file you wanted"
    );
    $msg->attach(
        Type     =>'application/zip',
        Path     => $HOME,
        Filename =>'little.zip',
        Disposition => 'attachment'
    );
    ### use Net:SMTP to do the sending
    $msg->send('smtp','some.host', Debug=>1 );

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