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[Flix]

First, thanks for sharing this great piece of software. I run Denmarks first open source newspaper on the web (all content delivered by the readers) called flix.dk, and I think there is a huge potential for photo-reporting from citizens.

I made an iframe block for showing the latest Peffisaur submissions on the frontpage of flix.dk and it's working fine.

However, one user has a Siemens SX1 and when he sends an MMS it is received and put in a folder in msgstore but doesn't show correctly on the site.

In the msgstore I find:

info.txt
containing:
part1 (image/jpeg)
EmailFooter.txt (application/octet-stream)

On Peffisaur there's a broken image and a note saying "click this link to view image"

The picture is on the server ok, I just need to add .jpg to make it show.

It is probably some problem with the headers but I can't make out what it is - any ideas?

Here is a copy of the MMS-source when the Siemens SX1 sends to my normal email address:


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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:21:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: 45123123 <9cb15542014e4b7fb7bgd000f4abb6a648c8c6c739c82b8606901c3f0c1c680e705f1d130876325f@mms.tdcmobil.dk>
To: e-rik@flix.dk
Subject: Multimedia message
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_Part_450940_8109291.1112912486920"
X-Mms-MMS-Version: 16
X-Mms-Priority: 1
X-Mms-Delivery-Report: 1
X-Nokia-Ag-Version: 2.0
X-Mms-Message-Class: 0
X-Mms-Message-Type: 0
X-Mms-Transaction-ID: 3913705009
X-Mms-Read-Reply: 1
X-Mms-Expiry: RELATIVE: 134672
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Apr 2005 22:45:31.0546 (UTC) FILETIME=[80CC47A0:01C53BC3]
X-UNI2-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information
X-UNI2-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details
X-UNI2-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.299,
required 5, BAYES_00 -2.60, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS 0.30)

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Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Location: Rent_a_w.jpg
Content-Disposition: inline

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wBDAAoHBwgHBgoICAgLCgoLDhgQDg0NDh0VFhEYIx8

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GmGEjoxqwSMcioyRTAqsk3ZxTf34q1jPfFIwA96BFYyTDqhxT
WuCOqn8qtHkdKYVHoPyosrBqAP/Z
------=_Part_450940_8109291.1112912486920
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Location: Dette_bi.txt
Content-Disposition: inline

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LiBEZXIgc3TDpXIgIlJlbnQtYS1XcmVjayIgcMOlIGJpbGVu
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MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="EmailFooter.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Vigtig info.txt"

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[Peffis]

Yes, many phones unfortunately don't put an extension on the image filenames when they send it off as emails. For instance, if I take an image with my K700i and send it immediately as an MMS it will get the extension .jpg and a proper filename but if I store it in the phone and later send it as an email it will get no extension at all - in fact, the phone will not put any name on the attachment in the email at all.

Unfortunately the receiving email script is not so advanced to be able to handle this which means that the file will be put on the server without extension and the web server will not know what content type to put on it later when it is accessed - thus it will appear broken on the page. One fix would be to implement something similar as in send.php where an extension is created and added from the content type field but this has not been done. The recmail.pl should really be rewritten in total as it's really a simple hack and not really a good implementation. But there is no time for it at the moment.

[Peffis]

...and even if the phone does send the file name it can still be the recmail.pl that is not handling it right I'm afraid. It relies on the munpack tool and I don't know if that's really so good all the time. A rewrite would be in order as I said. I did some tests before, rewriting it in PHP and that works pretty well actually. Some day I'll release that but I don't have time to work on anything like this at the moment.

[Peffis]

...AND (lots of 'ands' today)...usually the browsers are a bit smart when they don't get the correct content type from the web server. For instance, I've seen that having a filename without extension as the src of an image tag (<img src="part1">) works as I suppose the browser makes some image format detection in that context, but a direct link to part1 will not work as it has no context then.

Take a look for instance at the message here: http://peffis.com/message.php?mid=3634

It has part1 as filename but the browser can still display it because it's within the <img> context.

[Guest]

hm...

[NokiaGuy]

I'm receiving a similar kind of problem.

I can email to my Peffisaur from Outlook/Thunderbid/Squirrel. I create an email, put in my p-xxxxxx@mydomain.com and send. It works great. However, whenever I try to send from my mobile phone (Nokia 6600), all that appears is the subject line. This happens on my site and on peffis.com as well

This also happens on my friends Samsung D500, my brothers Sony Ericsson K750i & my wifes Nokia 7600.

I have tried many things, but don't feel I have enough experience to start playing around with too much of the software because I don't want to break the bit that already works!

Stefan, if you ever find the time to work on this & can post the code, that would be fantastic! Do you have a paypal donation we can contribute to???