There is no reason you need to use webfaction's mail servers if you are hosted on webfaction.
try connecting to a different mail server, and run some tests and see what happens. On Jun 9, 12:49 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > I do not know how to help about this. This seems more of a problem > with smtlib than web2py. If anybody has any more insight about this > please let us know. > > The idea of linking the attachment seems a better way anyway because > less load on the email server. > > On Jun 9, 12:46 pm, Bob_in_Comox <rwstj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I send email out to 150 club members. No problems with simple emails. > > However with attachments only PC users can see and download them, > > while Mac uses cannot even see the attachments. > > > using web2py 1.79.1 on webfaction with webfaction email servers > > > My code (simplified): > > > from gluon.tools import Mail > > attachments = [Mail.Attachment(path-to-file1, filename=filename1)] > > > mail = Mail( 'smtp.webfaction.com:587', club-email-address, club-email- > > login) > > mail.send( > > to = [club-member-addresses], > > subject = subject, > > message = plain-text-message, > > attachments = attachments, > > reply_to = my-email-address) > > > I do not change any default mail.settings. > > > If I cannot fix this, my backup option will be to store attachments on > > our server, and use links to these in the message instead of > > attachments. > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > Bob
