That was exactly it! Works like a bandit!
Thank you so much Jenda, I owe you one, actually more like two or three.
Your module rocks!
Genius of the day goes to you today!!
Dan
>
>
> From: "Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I have a script that generates a pdf file from html.
> >
> > It generates it for viewing perfect.
> > It will email it also.
> >
> > However when I email it a .dat extension is added and it
> won;t work in
> > Acrobat.
>
> I bet it's the mail client who adds the .dat extension, not
> Mail::Sender.
>
> > If I view the source of the view version and viwe the source of the
> > dat file they seem to be identicle. The html is generated
> on the fly
> > based on databads enetries and then the pdf code is created
> form that
> > using the program htmldoc.
> >
> > If I just remove the extension so it's a .pdf file Acrobat
> still can't
> > read it.
> >
> > Is there any way to specify what the attached file name
> should be with
> > out it adding the .dat ? What am I missing?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dan
> >
> > Here is my code :
> >
> > # works great
> > print "Content-type: application/pdf\n\n";
> > print $contract_html_pdf;
> > exit;
> >
> > # works good except for it sends 'Infiniplex.pdf.dat' instead of #
> > Infiniplex.pdf
> >
> > $sender = new Mail::Sender {smtp => "$smtp_serv", from =>
> > "$from"};
> > $sender->OpenMultipart({subject => "$subject", to =>
> > "$email_to"}); $sender->Body({
> > ctype => 'text/plain',
> > msg => "$text"
> > });
> > $sender->Part({
> > ctype => 'application/pdf',
> > description => 'Infiniplex.pdf',
> > disposition => 'attachment',
>
> disposition => 'attachment; filename=Infiniplex.pdf',
> encoding => 'Base64',
>
> > msg => "$contract_html_pdf"
> > });
> > $sender->Close();
>
> You should specify the filename inside the disposition
> header. The mail client aparently uses the description to
> create a name of
> the file if you don't and appends .dat to specify it doesn't really
> know what type of file it is.
> Second problem is that the default encoding for ->Part() is 7BIT.
> Which basicaly means "Don't encode the data and hope for best". PDF
> is a binary format so you should use Base64 encoding to ensure it
> will get through fine.
>
> HTH, Jenda
> P.S.: One more thing to add to the docs, right ? :-)
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