Options to attach memory buffer to email

[Pavel Odintsov]

Hello!

I tried to use cmime_part_from_file and it works really well. But I'm looking for options to attach memory region to email because I do not want to dump file to filesystem just to do it. I also tried cmime_part_from_string but it does another job.

Any chance to get this option in your library?

Something like:

cmime_part_from_memory(pointer, pointer_length, attachmen_name);

Thank you!

[Axel Steiner]

Hi Pavel,

the problem, when attaching a mime part from a memory region, is to determine the mime headers respectively mime type of the attachment. 

When attaching mime parts from files, libcmime will look up necessary informations using the „file“

binary and encodes the data to base64. At the moment there is no code in libcmime to classify 

the mime type of data. 

A solution could be a new function (e.g. cmime_part_from_memory) which writes the memory to a temporary

file, which would be processed by cmime_part_from_file(). This would just be a convenience function for the user,

to not write a temporary file by self.

If the writing of a temporary file should be prevented, some own mime detection code must be implemented, which would be a big change. 

Bye,

Axel 

[Pavel Odintsov]

Thanks for a detailed reply, Axel!

I'll try to implement my code and will share it! ;)