CFMAILPARAM - Attachment Lossing Names

#1 08-25-2008, 02:55 AM

Hi all,

Currently, I'm using CF7. When I attached a PDF inside a CFMAIL, the filename
within the email became "ATT411668.dat", instead of "FileName.PDF".

1) I've removed all the non-alphanumeric characters.
2) I've truncated the filename to only 49 characters.

Assume #docname#.PDF exists.

Do you know why? Please advise. Thanks.

Best regards,
Raymond Cheung

<cfscript>
docname = "This Time, It's Different!";
docname = REreplace(docname,"[^a-zA-Z0-9]","","all");

docname = replace(docname,"&","","all");
docname = replace(docname,",","","all");
docname = replace(docname,"!","","all");
docname = replace(docname,"?","","all");
</cfscript>

<cfif (len(docname) gt 50)>
<cfset docname = left(docname, 49)>
</cfif>

<cfmail to="to@adobe.com" from="from@adobe.com" subject="This Time, It's
Different!" type="text">
<cfmailparam file = "c:\temp\#docname#.pdf" type="application/pdf">
This Time, It's Different!
</cfmail>

#2 08-27-2008, 03:11 PM

This will happen at the recipient's end depending on the mail server/client
they use ... you could send a pdf from your desktop to the same recipient and
it will happen with that too.

It could be a security reflex that it changes the file to a non-binary format
if it is not trusted or seems to be coming from a questionable source.

A number of the government servers seem to do that - no idea why, but renaming
the file at the recipient's end generally allows it to open properly.

Nothing you do in your code is going to change that.

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