If you use a "smart" editor like Visual SlickEdit, etc (e.g. not notepad), to view the original text attachment file Harmony_Win72.txt, you'll see that it contains extra characters at the very beginning. So, the email service is simply sending the file contents and the original text file does indeed contain extra characters at the beginning. Note that the characters may not be part of the supported codepage on your Email service machine (and when viewed by an editor that doesn't support the characters, they may appear to not be there, e.g. such as if using notepad). If you don't want the extra characters in the attachment, then you'll have to remove them from the file.
For example, when I view the original text attachment file
Harmony_Win72.txt that you provided via Visual SlickEdit, it shows the
extra characters:
--------------------------------------------------------------
Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
(512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
From: Cindy Zhu <c...@fekete.com>
To: "staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
<staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: 05/04/2011 04:14 PM
Subject: [staf-users] Extra characters in the email attachment
Hi,
I have the following code to send out an email with two attachments.
The original text attachment sent is Harmony_Win72.txt, but in the
attachment received, which was renamed to Harmony.txt, has extra
characters at the very beginning.
Can you tell me why and help me to fix that? I really want the attachment
exactly like the original copy.
Thanks,
Cindy
<script>
from com.ibm.staf import STAFUtil
emailTo = 'c...@fekete.com' #owner of the automation
scripter
emailFr = 'c...@fekete.com'
emailSubject = PRODUCT + ' ' + VERSION + ' Automation Test Results'
emailMessage = 'Attached is the Silk run results on 64 bit Win7.'
emailEmptyMessage = 'No Silk run results on 64 bit Win7. Time out
occurred.'
emailAttachmentMachine = '1451W7.Fekete.com' # Machine where attachment
files are located
silkResult = 'D:\\Silk\Apps\Harmony\TestResults\Harmony_Win72.txt'
bmp = 'D:\\Silk\Apps\Harmony\TestResults\LastScreenShot.bmp'
</script>
<sequence>
<!-- The following is to send email to QAs, LPs, and TAs with Silk result
and snapshot on the 64-bit Win7 test client-->
<stafcmd name="'Sending email to the QA, LPs, and TAs'">
<location>'local'</location>
<service>'EMAIL'</service>
<request>
'SEND TO %s SUBJECT %s MESSAGE %s
ATTACHMENTMACHINE %s TEXTATTACHMENT %s BINARYATTAcHMENT %s' \
% (emailTo,
STAFUtil.wrapData(emailSubject),
STAFUtil.wrapData(emailMessage),STAFUtil.wrapData(emailAttachmentMachine),
\
STAFUtil.wrapData(silkresult),STAFUtil.wrapData(bmp))
</request>
</stafcmd>
[attachment "Harmony.txt" deleted by Sharon Lucas/Austin/IBM] [attachment
"Harmony_Win72.txt" deleted by Sharon Lucas/Austin/IBM]
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