Blank emails with blank attachment [#1336538]

When I enable this module and send a test email, I get a blank email with a corrupt attachment (called 'attachment'). When I inspect the message source, I do see a plaintext and HTMLversion of the email, yet it does not appear. What is causing this?

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	newsletter-sample.txt	13.7 KB	dfaulkner

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Comment #1

pillarsdotnet commented 10 November 2011 at 04:06

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Dunno. Can you send a test message to bobvin@pillars.net ?

Comment #2

dfaulkner commented 2 March 2012 at 05:17

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I'm not the original bug reporter, but I'm experiencing the same issues I'm about to send you a sample email with the problem. I'm running 6.x-2.15, so the problem appears in the latest release as well.

If I use htmlmail by itself, I get a correct rendering of html output, but html only, not a mime-encoded message with a text part as well. With htmlmail, mailmime, and mimemail all enabled, I get a multipart mime, but it appears as attachement with a very odd content type:

Content-Type: =?UTF-8?B?bXVsdGlwYXJ0L2FsdGVybmF0aXZlOwogYm91bmRhcnk9Ij1fYWM5YTM0NTcxYTE=?=
 =?UTF-8?B?OGY3ZGFhYzI5ZWE4Zjg2NDU5NTliIg==?=

I've attached my copy of the sample email (with full headers), for reference.

Comment #3

dfaulkner commented 2 March 2012 at 05:18

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Comment #4

pillarsdotnet commented 6 March 2012 at 03:22

Dunno when I'll be able to get to this, but the problem is obviously a corrupted Content-Type header.

Why do you have both HTMLMail and MimeMail installed?

Comment #5

dfaulkner commented 6 March 2012 at 04:11

My attempt to use both may have been out of ignorance. I wanted to use simplenews to build newsletter content, then send that out as a multipart mime message, because, well, because that's the way it's supposed to be. :) Just HTML rubs me the wrong way from a graceful-degradation/progressive-enhancement viewpoint (plus, I'm old-school).

I wanted HTML from simplenews to get wrapped in a special "newsletter" theme that was table-based for browsers and then sent out. This is because I wanted to include additional content from modules in the various regions in that theme (most notably, the customer has asked for the ability to include sponsor ads at the top and bottom of the newsletter). The echo module seemed the best choice there from what I read in htmlmail mail.

So, I thought the right stack was: simplenews -> newsletter node -> htmlmail (pull in htmlmail-simplenews.tpl.php + theme/page.tpl.php) -> input filters (img_assist, emogrifier, pathologic) -> mimemail -> out

Apparently, I have that wrong or too complicated. If there's a better way, I'm all ears.