Blue square instead of photo in email!

Why can't I view pictures sent in email on my iPhone? It worked fine on my 3g, I now have a 3gs and I get a small blue square with a question mark inside instead of photos. Why is this? As far as I know the settings are the same. So frustrating - hope somebody can help!

iphone3Gguy wrote:
Add your email account to your husband iPhone and test. If he cannot see the image with your email on his iPhone then you know it is your email account.
Smart move ! Hadn't thought of that

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here is the result.
also getting this error but i am able to send email.
ERROR at line 1:
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following error: ORA-29277: invalid SMTP operation
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create or replace package body Mahi
       is
          -- Write a MIME header
          procedure write_mime_header (
              p_conn in out nocopy utl_smtp.connection
           , p_name in varchar2
            , p_value in varchar2
           is
          begin
            utl_smtp.write_data ( p_conn
                                 , p_name || ': ' || p_value || utl_tcp.crlf
         end;
         procedure mail (
            p_sender in varchar2
          , p_recipient in varchar2
           , p_subject in varchar2
           , p_message in varchar2
          is
            l_conn           utl_smtp.connection;
            nls_charset    varchar2(255);
           v_src_loc BFILE := BFILENAME('BACKUP', 'Logon.jpg');
           --v_src_loc BLOB;
      l_buffer   RAW(54);
      l_amount   BINARY_INTEGER := 54;
      l_pos      INTEGER := 1;
      l_blob     BLOB := EMPTY_BLOB;
      l_blob_len INTEGER;
     v_amount   INTEGER;
              v_fname VARCHAR2(50);
     CURSOR img_cur IS SELECT photo_name,photo
FROM temp_photo;
    --crlf varchar2(2) := chr(10)||chr(13);
PROCEDURE send_header(pi_name IN VARCHAR2, pi_header IN VARCHAR2) AS
   BEGIN
      UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                          pi_name || ': ' || pi_header || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
   END;
         begin
            -- get characterset
            select value
            into   nls_charset
            from   nls_database_parameters
            where parameter = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET';
            select
            photo into v_src_loc from
            temp_photo
            where id=1;
            DBMS_LOB.OPEN(v_src_loc, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READONLY); --Read the file
     DBMS_LOB.CREATETEMPORARY(l_blob, TRUE); --Create temporary LOB to store the file.
     v_amount := DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(v_src_loc); --Amount to store.
     DBMS_LOB.LOADFROMFILE(l_blob, v_src_loc, v_amount); -- Loading from file into temporary LOB
     --DBMS_LOB.COPY(l_blob, v_src_loc, v_amount);
     l_blob_len := DBMS_LOB.getlength(l_blob);
           -- establish connection and autheticate
           l_conn   := utl_smtp.open_connection (g_smtp_host, g_smtp_port);
            utl_smtp.ehlo(l_conn, g_smtp_domain);
             utl_smtp.command(l_conn, 'auth login');
             utl_smtp.command(l_conn,utl_encode.text_encode('[email protected]', nls_charset, 1));
            utl_smtp.command(l_conn, utl_encode.text_encode('xxxxx', nls_charset, 1));
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              utl_smtp.command(l_conn, 'MAIL FROM: <'||p_sender||'>');
             utl_smtp.command(l_conn, 'RCPT TO: <'||p_recipient||'>');
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             utl_smtp.open_data (l_conn);
             write_mime_header (l_conn, 'From', p_sender);
            write_mime_header (l_conn, 'To', p_recipient);
            write_mime_header (l_conn, 'Subject', p_subject);
             write_mime_header (l_conn, 'Content-Type', 'text/plain; charset=us-ascii');
             write_mime_header (l_conn, 'X-Mailer', g_mailer_id);
             utl_smtp.write_data (l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
             UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'MIME-Version: 1.0' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; ' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         ' boundary= "' || 'BACKUP.SECBOUND' || '"' ||
                         UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
             -- write message body
            utl_smtp.write_data (l_conn, p_message);
            OPEN img_cur;
LOOP
FETCH img_cur INTO v_fname,l_blob;
end loop;
close img_cur;
            UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         '--' || 'BACKUP.SECBOUND' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Type: text/plain;' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         ' charset=US-ASCII' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, p_message || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         '--' || 'BACKUP.SECBOUND' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' ||
                         UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Disposition: attachment; ' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         ' filename="' || 'gpg.jpg' || '"' || --My filename
                         UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
    UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
/* Writing the BLOL in chunks */
    WHILE l_pos < l_blob_len LOOP
      DBMS_LOB.READ(l_blob, l_amount, l_pos, l_buffer);
      UTL_SMTP.write_raw_data(l_conn,
                              UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_ENCODE(l_buffer));
      UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
       l_buffer := NULL;
       l_pos    := l_pos + l_amount;
     END LOOP;
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
    -- Close Email
    UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         '--' || 'BACKUP.SECBOUND' || '--' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         UTL_TCP.CRLF || '.' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
                         UTL_SMTP.CLOSE_DATA(l_conn);
                         utl_smtp.close_data (l_conn);
     UTL_SMTP.QUIT(l_conn);
     DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY(l_blob);
     DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY(l_blob);
     DBMS_LOB.FILECLOSE(v_src_loc);
                -- end connection
            utl_smtp.quit (l_conn);
                    exception
             when others
             then
               begin
                  utl_smtp.quit(l_conn);
                exception
                  when others then
                   null;
               end;
               raise_application_error(-20000,'Failed to send mail due to the
following error: ' || sqlerrm);
DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY(l_blob);
DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY(l_blob);
      DBMS_LOB.FILECLOSE(v_src_loc);
     raise;
         end;
      end;
      commit;Note:- i am using Stunnel,Oracle Database 11g R2 and OS is Linux...
I installed Linux on virtualBox.
please suggest me why i am getting strange text instead of photo?
if my code is wrong plz correct for me..
thanks in advance...
Mehwish
Student.
Edited by: Mehwish on Apr 15, 2011 10:57 PM

Your codes are very nice and easy to use but i am unlucky and i am not able to send attachment
before i was not able to send even junk text of photo but after using u r code
i am able to send that and i am near to solve my problem because of your nice guide and codes...
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and goes this instead of picture.
Hi Meh --BACKUP.SECBOUNDContent-Type: application/octet-streamContent-Disposition:
attachment; filename="gpg.jpg"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 /9j/4AAQ
SkZJRgABAgAAZABkAAD/7AARRHVja3kAAQAEAAAAPgAA/+
4ADkFkb2JlAGTAAAAAAf/bAIQABgQEBAQEBgQEBgkGBQYJCgcGBgcKCwkJCg
kJCw8LDAwMDAsPDA0ODg4NDBERExMRERoZGRkaHR0dHR0dHR0dHQEGBwcMCw
wWDw8WGRQQFBkdHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0dH
R0dHR0dHR0dHR0dHR0d/8AAEQgA+wG0AwERAAIRAQMRAf/EAKQAAAICAwEBAQ
AAAAAAAAAAAAECAAMFBgcECAkBAQEAAwEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEBQYHE
AABAwIEAwQGCAMFBgYDAAABAAIDEQQhMRIFQRMGUWEiB3GBoTJCFJGxwVJiI
xUIkjMk0XKCokPh8cJT
and i tried to use this code now.
create or replace package body mahi
       is
          -- Write a MIME header
          procedure write_mime_header (
              p_conn in out nocopy utl_smtp.connection
           , p_name in varchar2
            , p_value in varchar2
           is
          begin
            utl_smtp.write_data ( p_conn
                                 , p_name || ': ' || p_value || utl_tcp.crlf
         end;
         procedure mail (
            p_sender in varchar2
          , p_recipient in varchar2
           , p_subject in varchar2
           , p_message in varchar2
          is
            l_conn           utl_smtp.connection;
            nls_charset    varchar2(255);
           v_src_loc BFILE := BFILENAME('BACKUP', 'Logon.jpg');
           --v_src_loc BLOB;
      l_buffer   RAW(54);
      l_amount   BINARY_INTEGER := 54;
      l_pos      INTEGER := 1;
      l_blob     BLOB := EMPTY_BLOB;
      l_blob_len INTEGER;
     v_amount   INTEGER;
              v_fname VARCHAR2(50);
    --crlf varchar2(2) := chr(10)||chr(13);
PROCEDURE send_header(pi_name IN VARCHAR2, pi_header IN VARCHAR2) AS
   BEGIN
      UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                          pi_name || ': ' || pi_header || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
   END;
         begin
            -- get characterset
            select value
            into   nls_charset
            from   nls_database_parameters
            where parameter = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET';
            select
            photo into v_src_loc from
            temp_photo
            where id=1;
            DBMS_LOB.OPEN(v_src_loc, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READONLY); --Read the file
     DBMS_LOB.CREATETEMPORARY(l_blob, TRUE); --Create temporary LOB to store the file.
     v_amount := DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(v_src_loc); --Amount to store.
     DBMS_LOB.LOADFROMFILE(l_blob, v_src_loc, v_amount); -- Loading from file into temporary LOB
     --DBMS_LOB.COPY(l_blob, v_src_loc, v_amount);
     l_blob_len := DBMS_LOB.getlength(l_blob);
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           l_conn   := utl_smtp.open_connection (g_smtp_host, g_smtp_port);
            utl_smtp.ehlo(l_conn, g_smtp_domain);
             utl_smtp.command(l_conn, 'auth login');
             utl_smtp.command(l_conn,utl_encode.text_encode('[email protected]', nls_charset, 1));
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             -- set from/recipient
              utl_smtp.command(l_conn, 'MAIL FROM: <'||p_sender||'>');
             utl_smtp.command(l_conn, 'RCPT TO: <'||p_recipient||'>');
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             utl_smtp.open_data (l_conn);
             write_mime_header (l_conn, 'From', p_sender);
            write_mime_header (l_conn, 'To', p_recipient);
            write_mime_header (l_conn, 'Subject', p_subject);
             write_mime_header (l_conn, 'Content-Type', 'text/plain; charset=us-ascii');
             write_mime_header (l_conn, 'X-Mailer', g_mailer_id);
             utl_smtp.write_data (l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
             UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'MIME-Version: 1.0' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; ' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         ' boundary= "' || 'BACKUP.SECBOUND' || '"' ||
                         UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
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            utl_smtp.write_data (l_conn, p_message);
            UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         '--' || 'BACKUP.SECBOUND' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Type: text/plain;' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         ' charset=US-ASCII' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, p_message || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         '--' || 'BACKUP.SECBOUND' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Type: application/octet-stream' ||
                         UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Disposition: attachment; ' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
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                         UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
    UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
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    WHILE l_pos < l_blob_len LOOP
      DBMS_LOB.READ(l_blob, l_amount, l_pos, l_buffer);
      UTL_SMTP.write_raw_data(l_conn,
                              UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_ENCODE(l_buffer));
      UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
       l_buffer := NULL;
       l_pos    := l_pos + l_amount;
     END LOOP;
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn, UTL_TCP.CRLF);
    -- Close Email
    UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         '--' || 'BACKUP.SECBOUND' || '--' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
     UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(l_conn,
                         UTL_TCP.CRLF || '.' || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
                         UTL_SMTP.CLOSE_DATA(l_conn);
                         utl_smtp.close_data (l_conn);
     UTL_SMTP.QUIT(l_conn);
     DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY(l_blob);
     DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY(l_blob);
     DBMS_LOB.FILECLOSE(v_src_loc);
                -- end connection
            utl_smtp.quit (l_conn);
                    exception
             when others
             then
               begin
                  utl_smtp.quit(l_conn);
                exception
                  when others then
                   null;
               end;
               raise_application_error(-20000,'Failed to send mail due to the
following error: ' || sqlerrm);
DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY(l_blob);
DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY(l_blob);
      DBMS_LOB.FILECLOSE(v_src_loc);
     raise;
         end;
      end;
      Note:- i m using stunnel and sending email via gmail and my OS is linux and oracle database 11g R2.
i posted already in my previous post.
is tthere any format problem?
and also i am getting this error but i am able to send email which is getting properly in inbox.
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: Failed to send mail due to the
following error: ORA-29277: invalid SMTP operation
ORA-06512: at "MAIL.Mahi", line 151
ORA-06512: at line 2

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I had already entered my Email info under preferences.
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You are referring to this discussion, right?
Problem sending photos via email since I recently updated to iLife 11.
Which MacOS X version are you using and which iPhoto version?
If you are using Yosemite and have enabled up two-step verification for iCloud? Then you may need to create an application specific password for iPhoto. See this discussion: Re: Unable to send photo through email using iphoto theme (designs)Re: Unable to send photo through email using iphoto theme (designs)Re: Unable to send photo through email using iphoto theme (designs) Unable to send photo through email using iphoto theme (designs)

How to send photos as email attachments???

This is a ridiculously easy and simple question but I'm a mac newbie and can't figure out how to send photos as email attachments, not embed them in the body of the email. Every time I go to send a picture or group of pictures from i-photo an email message opens....the pictures are embedded in the body of the email and that's how they appear to receipients. In a test, I've sent them to a PC...the message comes through just fine but the photos don't have separate attachments that I can click on and "save as." they come through as bitmap files. Any ideas? THANK YOU.

It will not ALWAYS fix the problem that this topic is about; I had my Mail preferences set to send as Plain Text and it did not fix the problem. Additionally, since there is NOT an option in Iphoto as you previously noted, it might be confusing to some people.
However, for those of you who have the same problem, there seems to be a solution that worked for me. I also had the problem that Mail was overriding my sizing preference when I selected them in Iphoto (share > email) and always sending them as small instead of medium as I preferred.
Since it seems that sometimes Mail does not deploy the plain text default so you need to kick start it to remember. This is how I did it....
- Select the photos you want and hit SHARE > EMAIL in Iphoto
- Now, in Mail click on the photo browser button
- Find another photo in Iphoto via the browser and drag and drop it into the email that you're composing
- You'll see a size option appear in the bottom right hand corner
- Playing around with the sizing option a few times kicked it into gear and it seems to be working better since then
I hope that helps anyone who has had the same problem.

Blue square instead of photo in email!

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