[Gambas-user] Sendmail problems

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hi,
> 
> I want to send mail throug my program but I'm unable to use a attachement.
> The vTo, vSubject and vBody are filled in correctly in Thunderbird, but
> in vAttach I put the path to a jpg file and Thunderbird do not attach
> the file.
> If I Try to put an incorrect path in vAttach, I get an error form Gambas
> as expected.  Is it the fault of Gambas, my code or Thunderbird?
> 
> PUBLIC SUB btVersturen_Click()
>   DIM vTo AS NEW String[]
>   DIM vSubject AS String
>   DIM vBody AS String
>   DIM vAttach AS String
>   ........................
>   Desktop.SendMail(vTo,,, vSubject, vBody, vAttach)
> 
> I work with gambas 2.8 in Ubuntu 9.04 and QT
> (GTK gives the same result)
> 
> I tested with evolution as my default email program, but I get an error
> from evolution.  Evolution seemt to replace all the '/' with '%2F'.
> I don't know if Thunderbird does the same.  Thunderbird gives no error
> (but no attach either).
> 

Desktop.SendMail is just an interface to xdg-email. So try to send your mail 
with the xdg-email command. If it works, then there is a bug in Gambas, 
otherwise the problem is in the xdg-email script.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini