Attachments specified with absolute local paths are not added

The path should be a relative Drupal path and this should be fixed in the documentation in the first place. I am changing the component, so this issue can be a reference for #614782: Update README.txt and additional documentation. As regards the attachments with absolute local path, I think it's more like a feature request, than a bug report. Specially in this status of the module (see the other issues).

As I need the absolute path for files, I played around and walked through the code. I came to the same conclusion as Robbert in the post #0:

In the function _mimemail_url the following call will remove the leading slash as long as the base_path() is '/' (which is the fact for my installation).

  $url = preg_replace( '!^'. base_path() .'!', '', $url, 1);

the next line is

  if ($embed_file) return $url;

which will return the url as is, if embed_file is set.

A quick workaround to embed files with absolute path would be to add an additional slash to the filename. For example:
//path/to/file.txt

Maybe you should check whether base_path() == '/' before adding the additional slash. This approach works fine for me.

But as this workaround is not very clean, it would be nice if we could use something like file://path/to/file.txt or just /path/to/file.txt.

Hi,

I succeed in sending emails, but I fail sending file attachments. I add your patch. After several try I have no more idea. Can anybody help me please?

Here's my code:

$subject = 'test email';
$body = 'Nouvelle station en attente de validation';
$plaintext = TRUE;
$headers = NULL;
$attachments = array(
'filepath' => '/data/www/drupal-6.17/sites/default/files/captures_exemple.xls',
'filemime' => 'application/vnd.ms-excel'
);

mimemail($sender, $recipient, $subject, $body, $plaintext,$headers,NULL, $attachments);

Here's the error message:

# warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /data/www/drupal-6.17/modules/mimemail/mimemail.module on line 137.
# warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /data/www/drupal-6.17/modules/mimemail/mimemail.inc on line 55.
# warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /data/www/drupal-6.17/modules/mimemail/mimemail.inc on line 59.
# warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /data/www/drupal-6.17/modules/mimemail/mimemail.inc on line 21.

Thank you

Resolve:
$headers must be set to array() rather than NULL

hi,

I've set headers to array(), but still the attachment is not there... this is my code, thanks.

header('Location: invoices/sample.pdf');

$sender = 'mycompany@company.com';
$recipient = 'myemail@email.com';
$subject = 'New order';
$body = 'Please, see the attachment.';
$plaintext = TRUE;
$headers = array();
$attachments[]=array(
'filepath' => 'invoices/sample.pdf',
'filemime' => 'mime/type',
);

mimemail($sender, $recipient, $subject, $body, $plaintext, $headers, $text = NULL, $attachments, $mailkey);

@aneuryzma

I think you miss some info on your $attachments array.
It should work if you write it in this way:

$attachments[] = array(
  'filepath' => 'invoices/sample.pdf',
  'filemime' => 'mime/type',
  'filename' => 'sample.pdf',
  'list' => TRUE,
);

solved. Thanks

First, do not close any issue, please. Second, it would be nice if you can share the solution (about any issue not just this).

I've created a new patch which also adjusts the documentation in mimemail.module.

@sgabe: I haven't close any issue. The solution is given by the previous post, that's why I didn't add anything.

I have tested the patch from #10 with 6.x-1.0-alpha6 and it does not work for me. I am creating files in the Drupal temporary directory which is set to the file systems temporary directory (/tmp) and attachments are not working. I have also tried for other directories outside the Drupal root using absolute paths and the attachments fail.

Cheers,

Antoine

I think this is covered in #907716: Allow non-web-accessible files as attachments, so I am marking this as a duplicate.

The patch #10 doesn't work because "file:///" is matched by the previous test :

  // If the URL is absolute or a mailto, return it as-is.
  if (strpos($url, '://') !== FALSE || preg_match('!mailto:!', $url)) {
    $url = str_replace(' ', '%20', $url);
    return $url;
  }

if (strpos($url, '://') !== FALSE || preg_match('!(mailto|callto|tel)\:!', $url)) {

This added %20 for public/private files with spaces in filename,
and this is wrong, because later % will be replaced to %25

Attached fast fix.

This may be important: #1389504: Documentation for sending emails with attachments (difference between "filepath" and "filecontent"!)

I have to re-open this issue, because it indeed still exists. I've installed the latest 7.x-1.x-dev and the file to attach is located in the temporary directory. If I provide the absolute path, no attachement is added.

By prepending a second "/" at the beginning I could quickfix this as described. (So the path is //tmp/xyz). Permissions are set correctly and this quickfix makes the difference between working and failing attachments.
Else how do I specify the file path correctly, if a relative path is impossibe?

Thanks a lot.