At 09:38 14-09-2006, PDeRochambeau(_at_)iht(_dot_)com wrote:
we currently use a RTE (Reliable Transport Engine) to send emails
containing attachments. Although the attachments appear within the
e-mails' bodies as icons, in "heavy" mail clients, such as Lotus
Notes, Apple's Mail, etc., they don't show up in "light" mail
clients such as Web mail clients (www.excite.com, www.free.fr, etc.)
By comparing SMTP headers sent by our RTE and those sent by Mutt on
Linux, I have noticed that the former
That should be MIME headers.
sends "attachment" headers which don't contain the attachments' contents :
...
--------14507F4DC80F4D6511158149340B40B01
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: Text/Plain
There shouldn't be a new line before the Content-Type line. There
file content was not "attached" in this version.
Does anyone know how to force RTEs or MTAs such as sendmail to send
"attachment" headers of the second kind?
This is not a MTA or sendmail problem. Sendmail doesn't send
"attachment" headers. Your RTE may not be formatting the message
correctly before sending it to the MTA. Refer to MIME for how the
message body should be formatted.
Regards,
-sm