From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-02-06T00:29:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Tmail: Saving Excel attachments to disk.

On 2/5/07, Andrew M. Campbell <listdata@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I'm using ActionMailer, which uses Tmail, to save
> Excel attachments to disk.  I found a tutorial for
> saving attachments.  However whether I decode the
> message part or not.  Excel says the file is corrupt.
> I'm using Windows XP, latest stable Ruby and latest
> Rails gem.  The mails I receive are valid multipart
> mail messages.  The spreadsheet attachments are valid
> as well.  Any Suggestions on the proper way to save
> Excel attachments using Tmail?
>
> My code is very similar to this tutorial.  All I do is
> check the content type of each part.  If it is an
> Excel spreadsheet.  I push it onto an array.  Then
> iterate over the array of spreadsheets, saving them to
> disk.  The code I use to write to disk is identical to
> the tutorial.
> http://mondragon.cc/blog/articles/2006/12/30/decoding-email-attachments-with-actionmailer-base-receive
>
> Thanks,

try adding "binary" to File.open() if you're on windows

you can check if this is your problem by sending a known file to
yourself and compare the sent and received files - if there's a
problem, they'd differ in length, just make sure the sent file
contains \n (13)