How do I get Windmail to send an email attachment

kjg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to use the Windmail header 'Attach' to add an attachment to an email that the my Perl Script is generating. Here are the relevant code snippets:

use Win32::ODBC;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
    $mailsubject = "Subject: ".$Form{'subject'};
   $attachment = "Attach: ".$Form{'attachment'};
            open MAIL, "|c:/windmail/windmail -t";
            print MAIL "To:$Email\@ybs.co.uk\n";
            print MAIL "From:Internal_Comms\@ybs.co.uk\n";
            print MAIL "Subject:".$mailsubject." \n\n";
            print MAIL "Attach:".$attachment."\n\n";
            print MAIL "\n\n";
            print MAIL $mailtext;
            close MAIL;
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The variables are being read from a web-form, but essentially are just text:
$email = 'me'
$mailsubject = 'Any text'
$attachment = 'T:\anything.pdf'
$mailtext = 'some text'
What it actually sends is this:

To: me
From: Internal_Comms
Subject: Any text

Message body:
T:\Anything.pdf

Some text
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When the email arrives in my inbox, it has the little attachment icon against it, but when I open the email there actually is no attachment. What gives?

Please note I cannot use MIME::Lite or some such, it's Windmail or bust for me! :-(

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Re: How do I get Windmail to send an email attachment by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2008 at 14:15 UTC
RTFM, you havet too many \n\n	[reply]
Re^2: How do I get Windmail to send an email attachment by kjg (Sexton) on Apr 04, 2008 at 14:24 UTC
Thanks. I've tided the script up to: `open MAIL, "\|c:/windmail/windmail -t"; print MAIL "To:$Email\@ybs.co.uk\n"; print MAIL "From:Internal_Comms\@ybs.co.uk\n"; print MAIL "Subject:".$mailsubject." \n"; print MAIL "Attach:".$attachment."\n\n"; print MAIL $mailtext; close MAIL;` [download] but I'm now getting: `To: me From: Internal_Comms Subject: Any text Message body: Some text` [download] Once again, the email looks like it has an attachment in my inbox, but there is no attachment when I actually read the email. Somethings still not right, plainly!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How do I get Windmail to send an email attachment by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2008 at 14:28 UTC
check the logs?	[reply]
Re^4: How do I get Windmail to send an email attachment by kjg (Sexton) on Apr 04, 2008 at 14:32 UTC
Re^5: How do I get Windmail to send an email attachment by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 04, 2008 at 14:38 UTC
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Re^5: How do I get Windmail to send an email attachment by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2008 at 14:36 UTC
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Re: How do I get Windmail to send an email attachment by jepri (Parson) on Apr 05, 2008 at 12:58 UTC
Hmmm, the documentation for windmail shows the attachment path in quotes. I'd start by making your example look exactly like the example in the manual, and then asking the windmail developers for help. Perl seems to be doing its job correctly (the mail gets sent), so it looks to be a problem with the way windmail is reading your message.	[reply]


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