Attach files to newsletters?

Don't know if it can be done. Need to post the question in mimemail issues since that's the module used to send views_mail emails.

If you are able to successfully attach files using views mail, could you please explain what else you did.

I made the changes you gave above, but get this error when attempting to send newsletter with file attachments:

* warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/websites/drupal/sc/modules/mimemail/mimemail.inc on line 365.
* warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/websites/drupal/sc/modules/mimemail/mimemail.inc on line 365.

Thanks!

The $attachments variable in the mimemail() function is an array of arrays like so:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [filepath] => /tmp/phpxc07Sk
            [filemime] => image/png
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [filepath] => /tmp/php242VYM
            [filemime] => image/png
        )
)

Where each internal array represents a separate file.

I'm working on a patch that will hopefully introduce a third element, but that isn't there yet.

Can someone please explain how you get this to work?

Here's a couple of snippets of what I did in Mass Contact. You can scan the mass_contact_mail_page_submit() function for all the gory details.

  if ($_FILES['files']['size']['attachment'] > 0) {
    if (module_exists('mimemail') && variable_get('mimemail_alter', 0) == 1) {
      $message_attachment = array(
        array(
          'filepath' => $_FILES['files']['tmp_name']['attachment'],
          'filename' => $_FILES['files']['name']['attachment'],
          'filemime' => $_FILES['files']['type']['attachment'],
        )
      );
    }
    else {
      $message_attachment  = '--'. $uid ."\n";
      $message_attachment .= 'Content-Type: '. $_FILES['files']['type']['attachment'] .'; name="'. basename($_FILES['files']['name']['attachment']) ."\"\n";
      $message_attachment .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
      $message_attachment .= 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'. basename($_FILES['files']['name']['attachment']) ."\"\n\n";
      $message_attachment .= chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($_FILES['files']['tmp_name']['attachment'])));
      $message_attachment .= "\n\n--". $uid ."--\n\n";

      $message[]           = $message_attachment;
    }
  }

And then later on:

          if (module_exists('mimemail') && variable_get('mimemail_alter', 0) == 1) {
            $success = mimemail($from, $to, $subject, $body, NULL, $headers, NULL, $message_attachment);
          }
          else {
            $success = drupal_mail('mass-contact-page-mail', $to, $subject, $body, $from, $headers);
          }

Keep in mind that the "'filename' => $_FILES['files']['name']['attachment']," line in the first snippet requires a patch to Mime Mail that I created here: http://drupal.org/node/223176. If you don't want to apply the patch, then just leave out that line.

Also, Mass Contact currently only allows one attachment. If Views Mail allows more than one, then just keep adding to the array ($message_attachment in the snippets above).

Now using Simplenews to send emails, so they have a file attachment solution. The files aren't actually attached (they are links back to the site), but something's better than nothing.

http://drupal.org/files/issues/views_mail.module.5.x-2.0.patch