RE: Creating & sending MIME file causing ATT00001.TXT attachment

Make sure if you're sending these from the system i that the IBM SMTP server
isn't splitting the email/attachment. It's something it does, but most
clients don't know how to piece it back together.

See www.bvstools.com/docs/mailtool/faq.html in the section on attachment
splitting for a fix depending on your OS version.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Allen
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Subject: RE: Creating & sending MIME file causing ATT00001.TXT
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The email I am using for this is from Outlook
Here is an example of the MIME data that causes the extra
attachment:

From: jjjjj <jjjjj@xxxxxxxxx>
To: jjjjj@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:24:50 -0500
Subject: test email subject
Importance: normal
Sensitivity: normal
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--=_BoundaryOne"
Your mail reader does not support MIME!
----=_BoundaryOne
Content-Description: EM045593.PDF
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="EM045593.PDF"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="EM045593.PDF"

JVBERi0xLjMgI...
...
...
----=_BoundaryOne
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
test email message
----=_BoundaryOne--


John


-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:11 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Creating & sending MIME file causing
ATT00001.TXT attachment

From: John Allen
We are now creating our own email messages
(MIME files) with as many attachments as we want.

I don't know that much about MIME protocol, but I suspect
that Exchange is creating the ATT00001.TXT attachment based
on MIME headers embedded in the data stream. Content-Type
and Content-Transfer-Encoding headers, perhaps. Or maybe a
Multipart header? Are you using a tool for generating MIME
headers?

My Yahoo mail reader shows the following headers in your
original post, for example. But it didn't generate an
attachment:

From: "John Allen"
To: <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Creating & sending MIME file causing ATT00001.TXT
attachment
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:42:22 -0500
Message-ID: <8AB3471C302B422AA1B5121E88F7C91D@richard>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Thread-Index: AclccDkP6PMRkofhQC+p3C5AA/fpOw== please
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