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[l***@gmail.com]

Hi All,

I'm using perl module MIME::Lite to sent out email with attachments,
may I know what "Type" should I define to attach any type of files,
for instance .jpg, .xls, .doc, .pdf and etc without checking the
attached file type. Is there any global variable to define instead of
Type => 'application/zip', Type => 'image/gif', Type => "application/
xls" and etc?

$msg->attach (
Type => 'what type should I define without checking the attached
file type',
Path => '$path',
Filename => '$filename',
Disposition => 'attachment'
)

Please helps.

Thanks & Regards,
Leo.

[Jeff Pang]

Post by l***@gmail.com
Hi All,
I'm using perl module MIME::Lite to sent out email with attachments,
may I know what "Type" should I define to attach any type of files,
for instance .jpg, .xls, .doc, .pdf and etc without checking the
attached file type. Is there any global variable to define instead of
Type => 'application/zip', Type => 'image/gif', Type => "application/
xls" and etc?

I don't think there is one.
If you don't specify the types distinctly, you break the rules (RFC 2822 etc).

[Octavian Rasnita]

Post by l***@gmail.com
Hi All,
I'm using perl module MIME::Lite to sent out email with attachments,
may I know what "Type" should I define to attach any type of files,
for instance .jpg, .xls, .doc, .pdf and etc without checking the
attached file type. Is there any global variable to define instead of
Type => 'application/zip', Type => 'image/gif', Type => "application/
xls" and etc?

You could use
Mail::Builder
to create the mail messages and and Email::Send to send them.

You should use something like:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Mail::Builder;
use Email::Send;

my $mail = Mail::Builder->new;
$mail->from('***@server.com');
$mail->to('***@anotherserver.com');
$mail->subject('Here is the subject');
$mail->plaintext('The plain text version');
$mail->htmltext('<b>The html</b> version');
$mail->attachment->add('file.pdf');
$mail->attachment->add('anotherfile.pdf');
$mail->image->add(image.jpg'); #An image you want to appear in the html file

my $mailer = Email::Send->new({mailer => 'SMTP'});
$mailer->mailer_args([Host => 'smtp.yourhost.com']);
$mailer->send($mail->stringify);

This module also encodes the headers as UTF-8, so they will be set correctly if the headers use special chars from other languages than english.
HTH.

Octavian

[Stewart Anderson]

Post by l***@gmail.com
Hi All,
I'm using perl module MIME::Lite to sent out email with attachments,
may I know what "Type" should I define to attach any type of files,
for instance .jpg, .xls, .doc, .pdf and etc without checking the
attached file type. Is there any global variable to define instead of
Type => 'application/zip', Type => 'image/gif', Type => "application/
xls" and etc?
$msg->attach (
Type => 'what type should I define without checking the

attached

Post by l***@gmail.com
file type',
Path => '$path',
Filename => '$filename',
Disposition => 'attachment'
)
Please helps.

I think that with MIME::Lite you can just set the type as BINARY or
TEXT. I experimented with lots of types for zip files and xls/csv
files and whilst is may break the RFC it does not seem to break how
the item is attached eg I send xls files as text and it made no
difference when the mail arrived in outlook with the attachement.

That's probably heresy though :)

Stu



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