[Zope] Email files via a form thru Zope

Curtis Maloney curtis@umd.com.au
Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:08:06 +1100


On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Michelle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone can help me.
>
> I would like to have people send files through a form so I have created a
> form:
>
*snip*
>
> Now (theoretically) you are supposed to be able to attach a file
> (either a .doc or a .xls file and it magically gets emailed to me. I
> get an email but the file does not attach.

Not quite.  To attach a file, you must make your message a "multi part MIME" 
message.  This is actually not all that difficult to do, and you can find the 
details in the DTML documentation.

>
> Unfortunatley I am not the most techo-minded person around and I have
> probably missed the most simplest bit but I just cant make it work!!!
> This whole Python and external methods and all that sort of stuff has
> been confusing me like you wouldnt believe! Soooooo I was hoping that
> there would be some wonderful person out there to show me the light! :)
>
One think you might want, tho, is to get the MIME patch, that allows 
expressions for the various fields in the dtml-sendmail tags.  This will be 
helpful for things like user-supplied file names.

Check out these pages:
http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/emailattach
http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/MIMETag

> Look forward to hearing from you!
>
> Michelle
>

Have a better one,
	Curtis Maloney