From: "Andrew M. Campbell" <listdata@...>
Date: 2007-02-06T00:43:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Tmail: Saving Excel attachments to disk.


--- Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> 
> 

Adding binary to File.open worked like a champ.  Thank
you.