Re: Attached without Attachment

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Gustavo - Emar Plásticos < suporte@emar.com.br> wrote: > Hi all, i made a code in PHP to save in a directory the XML attachments ! > All goes well until it comes across an email that has attachment but can > not save ! > > analyzing the source code of this email, i realized it has no line: > > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="name of the file.xml" > > but only this line: > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=name of file.xml > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > I´m using IMAP and the account is from Google: $host = "{ > > imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}**INBOX<http://imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl%7DINBOX> > "; > > What happend ? > Thanks any help > > Gustave > My suspicion is that the email contained no actual text body, so google converted the entire email message into the attachment (in octet-stream format). Unfortunately, email is only somewhat standardized. You'll have to make your programs deal with these sort of oddities, as they'll be inevitable. -- --Zootboy Sent from my PC.