[Zope] Excel spreadsheet attachment in dtml-sendmail

[Chris Withers]

Hi Chris,

Seeing the problems you're having, may I suggest you look at using 
python's excellent "email" package in an external method to generate 
these mails rather than suffering with the horrific DTML below?

I think you'd find it much easier to generate the headers needed for 
your faxes, and you can even then use smtplib direct if MailHost is 
tripping you up. You'll also have MUCH better support for encoding 
attachments and building up emails :-)

good luck,

Chris

Chris Larsen wrote:
> Never mind.. the dtml-boundary looks like this now.. I guess that
> zopelabs.com how-to needs to be updated.. oh well.
> 
>  
> 
> <dtml-boundary disposition=attachment type=application/vend.ms-excel
> encode=base64 filename=ics.xls><dtml-var expr="ics.data">
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: Chris Larsen 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:10 PM
> To: zope at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Excel spreadsheet attachment in dtml-sendmail
> 
>  
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> Now on to my next problem.. I have tried the below code to send off a
> spreadsheet as an attachment and am getting a dat file and a 232B file
> that can't be read.
> 
> Here's the code from zopelabs.com appropriated to my own info:
> 
> <dtml-sendmail mailhost=MailHost>
> To: chris at hssc.com
> From: chris at hssc.com
> Subject: some subject
> <dtml-mime type=application/msexcel encode=base64>
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="ics.xls"
> <dtml-boundary name=ics.xls type=application/msexcel
> disposition=attachment encode=base64>
> </dtml-mime>
> 
> </dtml-sendmail>
> 
> I thought they type was supposed to be application/vend.msexcel
> I've tried both ways tho but to no avail.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Chris Larsen
> 
> 
> 
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