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by Justin Hendrickson-2 :: Rate this Message:

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I just sent out another batch of tests and all versions (0.7.0, 1.0.2,
1.0.3, trunk) of Zend_Mail had bad attachments. I also sent two tests
using PEAR::Mail and PHPMailer v.2.0.0 and those attachments worked.

On Dec 6, 2007 10:03 AM, Justin Hendrickson
<justin.hendrickson@...> wrote:

> Unfortunately, all the people that having problems with attachments
> are also Outlook 2003 users. In order to get the full source of an
> email with Outlook 2003, you have to make a registry change. Normally
> I'd just call them up and do some troubleshooting with them, but
> they're not direct customers (these are invoices PDF's I'm sending
> them) and they're very busy, so they're not very eager to assist me.
>
> I just sent off my test scripts to Eric Coleman, so hopefully he can
> reproduce the bug with those and we can identify the bug.
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2007 11:31 PM, Eric Coleman <eric@...> wrote:
> > Justin,
> >
> > What happens if you diff the exchange attachment vs. the one you send
> > yourself (which, obviously doesn't go through exchange?)
> >
> > Maybe figuring out what's happening with the attachment might help
> > figure out where it is?  Also, does it happen with any other kinds of
> > attachments?  Have you tried with like a zip or tarball, or maybe a
> > word document of some sort?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > On Dec 5, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Justin Hendrickson wrote:
> >
> > > I tested out Zend_Mail from 1.0.3 and the trunk and got the same
> > > result.
> > >
> > > I sent myself a copy of each mail, saved each of their raw source, and
> > > diff'ed them. 0.7.0, 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 are pretty much all the same,
> > > excluding the previously mentioned differences.
> > >
> > > I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow to send out another batch of
> > > tests, unless we can find someone with an MS Exchange server tonight.
> > >
> > > In the mean time, I'm going to create a set of test scripts that use
> > > Zend_Mail 0.7.0, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, trunk, as well as the latest version of
> > > PHPMailer and PEAR::Mail. Hopefully one of those will work and we'll
> > > have something to look at.
> > >
> > > On Dec 5, 2007 3:53 PM, Justin Hendrickson <justin.hendrickson@...
> > > > wrote:
> > >> I just confirmed that Zend_Mail in 0.7.0 and 1.0.2 both failed to
> > >> send
> > >> the attachment correctly.
> > >>
> > >> I'm looking at raw copies of each email and they look mostly
> > >> identical
> > >> (minus timestamps, ids, mime boundaries and such).
> > >>
> > >> I'm going to create a new test with 1.0.3 in a minute here.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Dec 5, 2007 3:45 PM, Justin Hendrickson <justin.hendrickson@...
> > >> > wrote:
> > >>> This project is a bit old and never got upgraded, so I'm using ZF
> > >>> 0.7.0.
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm going retry sending an email with an attachment to the client
> > >>> using 0.7.0 and 1.0.3 and see if there's any difference.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Dec 5, 2007 3:01 PM, Cameron Laird <cameron@...>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> There have indeed been issues in this area; perhaps there still
> > >>>> are.  What release of Zend_Mail sources do you use?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>> From: Justin Hendrickson [mailto:justin.hendrickson@...]
> > >>>> Sent: Wed 12/5/2007 3:00 PM
> > >>>> To: fw-formats@...
> > >>>> Subject: [fw-formats] Zend_Mail and Microsoft Exchange Servers
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Has anyone experienced problems with sending attachment with
> > >>>> Zend_Mail
> > >>>> to MS Exchange servers? I consistently get emails from them
> > >>>> saying the
> > >>>> attachment on the email I sent was corrupt.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I initially thought the PDF was corrupt, so I started saving a
> > >>>> copy of
> > >>>> it before emailing it. The PDF opens fine, and weirder yet, sending
> > >>>> the attachment with my email client (Evolution) works fine, no
> > >>>> corruption issues.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'd test this myself, but I don't have an MS Exchange server to run
> > >>>> the tests on. I might be able to send a couple more emails to one
> > >>>> of
> > >>>> the users, but they're typically too busy to expect any kind of
> > >>>> reasonable turn around time.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
> >
>

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