Javax.mail attachment not correctly encoded

Hi,
I have developed an online auction system which, has a function to generate invoices using the iText libraries.
The invoices are stored as a ByteArray in a database and are mailed to the customer. This works find when running
the application within my IDE (Netbeans) on Mac OS X and Apache Tomcat 6.0.29 and javamail 1.4.3. When running the application on
Windows 2003 Server with same tomcat and javamail version the attachment is not readable on the client.
The attachment is added to the e-mail using the following code;
// Part two is the attachment
messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
messageBodyPart.setFileName(attName) ;
messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(new ByteArrayDataSource(attachment,attContType)));
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart) ;
The raw e-mail of the attachment when it is correctly encoded (running from my IDE)
Content-Type: application/pdf; name=factuur_656.pdf
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=factuur_656.pdf
JVBERi0xLjQKJeLjz9MKNCAwIG9iago8PC9MZW5ndGggMzM2L0ZpbHRlci9GbGF0ZURlY29kZT4+
c3RyZWFtCnicjZPBboJAEIbvPMXcbBPEmd1lWXpr0/bWpFYOvTWoa0WQVUQPPfmofZQuaFGCNg0J
gfDtfP+fCWvnIXK4BIUSoqnzFDlDZw0EaK/DfbKEwfuM4NHAsIIHzwQkIJo5vxQJCTIIIFo6Nztd
pGYyLz8QUfryNlo0GA+owSjsE/UZEp4TPp4IpAFS9bHr4wi+UjVllpvJvEgWuyT/bLlk4KFqsDqV
WcHKopu2MfTUiUvNptT5wcouWCWrsbgok1RnIIUL0Hvbjse60DlkcVx86bx3LhCoPN4c3AMjF9ud
SdZJG8IC/vUEQnUTjF5GcJ/pooRDfuBgAyV2C/b5G/aALl10HodVAMfrTi7aTr9q/Vq9LsBspxrG
And again when encoded from the server
Content-Type: application/pdf; name=factuur_656.pdf
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=factuur_656.pdf
JVBERi0xLjQKJeLjz9MKNCAwIG9iago8PC9MZW5ndGggMzM2L0ZpbHRlci9GbGF0ZURlY29kZT4+
c3RyZWFtCnicP5PBboJAEIbvPMXcbBPEmd1lWXpr0/bWpFYOvTWoa0U/VUQPPfmofZQuaFGCNg0J
P/DtfP+fCWvnIXK4BIUSoqnzFDlDZw0EaK/DfbKEwfuM4NHAsIIHzwQkIJo5vxQJCTIIIFo6Nztd
pGYyLz8QUfryNlo0GA+owSjsE/UZEp4TPp4IpAFS9bHr4wi+UjVllpvJvEgWuyT/bLlk4KFqsDqV
WcHKopu2MfTUiUvNptT5wcouWCWrsbgok1RnIIUL0Hvbjse60DlkcVx86bx3LhCoPN4c3AMjF9s/
SdZJG8IC/vUEQnUTjF5GcJ/pooRDfuBgAyV2C/b5G/aALl10HodVAMfrTi7aTr9q/Vq9LsBspxrG
Both attachments have the same length, and are similar (but are exactly the same).
In the third line of the correctly encoded attachment the characters are; "gf" which are
encoded in the not correctly encoded attachment to "P/".
Also setting "-Dmail.mime.multipart.bmparse=false" did not make any difference.
Any ideas, suggestions, solutions ?
Cheers
Peter

Have you verified that the input byte array has the same contents in both cases?
Is it possible that your server is picking up a different version of JavaMail?

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Package javax.mail does not exist (Still having trouble)

Good Morning
I know that there are several posts regarding issues with javamail. I have viewed them for the past hour. While several of them address my issue I have been unable to locate a solution.
Bare with me please, I am making this post very thorough. The other threads I have read are frusterating because the problems people tend to post are not clear.
I am trying to run "msgsend" which is a provided demo of javamail-1.4 using command prompt (start - run - cmd) with the javac command.
The output below is directly pasted from command prompt and written in bold.
C:\download\javamail-1.4\demo>javac msgsend.java
C:\download\javamail-1.4\demo>javac msgsend.java
msgsend.java:44: package javax.mail does not exist
import javax.mail.*;
^
msgsend.java:45: package javax.mail.internet does not exist
import javax.mail.internet.*;
^
msgsend.java:140: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Session
location: class msgsend
Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);
^
msgsend.java:140: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable Session
location: class msgsend
Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);
^
msgsend.java:145: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Message
location: class msgsend
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^
msgsend.java:145: cannot find symbol
symbol : class MimeMessage
location: class msgsend
Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);
^
msgsend.java:147: cannot find symbol
symbol : class InternetAddress
location: class msgsend
msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
^
msgsend.java:151: package Message does not exist
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
^
msgsend.java:152: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable InternetAddress
location: class msgsend
InternetAddress.parse(to,
^
msgsend.java:154: package Message does not exist
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.CC,
^
msgsend.java:155: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable InternetAddress
location: class msgsend
InternetAddress.parse(cc,
^
msgsend.java:157: package Message does not exist
msg.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.BCC,
^
msgsend.java:158: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable InternetAddress
location: class msgsend
InternetAddress.parse(bcc,
^
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symbol : class MimeBodyPart
location: class msgsend
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^
msgsend.java:167: cannot find symbol
symbol : class MimeBodyPart
location: class msgsend
MimeBodyPart mbp1 = new MimeBodyPart();
^
msgsend.java:169: cannot find symbol
symbol : class MimeBodyPart
location: class msgsend
MimeBodyPart mbp2 = new MimeBodyPart();
^
msgsend.java:169: cannot find symbol
symbol : class MimeBodyPart
location: class msgsend
MimeBodyPart mbp2 = new MimeBodyPart();
^
msgsend.java:171: cannot find symbol
symbol : class MimeMultipart
location: class msgsend
MimeMultipart mp = new MimeMultipart();
^
msgsend.java:171: cannot find symbol
symbol : class MimeMultipart
location: class msgsend
MimeMultipart mp = new MimeMultipart();
^
msgsend.java:185: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable Transport
location: class msgsend
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^
msgsend.java:193: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Store
location: class msgsend
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^
msgsend.java:195: cannot find symbol
symbol : class URLName
location: class msgsend
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^
msgsend.java:195: cannot find symbol
symbol : class URLName
location: class msgsend
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^
msgsend.java:212: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Folder
location: class msgsend
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^
msgsend.java:218: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable Folder
location: class msgsend
folder.create(Folder.HOLDS_MESSAGES);
^
msgsend.java:220: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Message
location: class msgsend
Message[] msgs = new Message[1];
^
msgsend.java:220: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Message
location: class msgsend
Message[] msgs = new Message[1];
27 errors
Here are the methods I have tried...
1. Make sure you have most current version of Java
2. Reinstall Java
3. Attempt to compile in an IDE (Attempted in Eclipse 3.2)
4. Set class path
Some sources suggest "CLASSPATH" some suggest "CLASS PATH" as the variable name. I have tried both.
Below is what the classpath looks like in bold.
Variable Name: CLASS PATH
Variable value: c:\download\javamail-1.4\mail.jar;C:\download\jaf-1.1\activation.jar;.
I have double checked all folder names and copy pasted all entries to eliminate typos. Javamail-1.4 and jaf-1.1 are both located in c:\download which is the same location Class Path points to.
Thank you very much for your input and effort. I can imagine how frusterating it is responding to 20million javamail posts :) (that may be a bit of an overstatement!)
Thank you again!
Irbi
Message was edited by:
irbi
Message was edited by:
irbi

Yes - I have read that part of the README and did exactly as it has said in a previous attempt. I should have mentioned that here I'm sorry :)
I moved the .jar files into the download folder and set the classpath exactly as the readme shows.
When I do that the msgsend.java compiles correctly but it still does not run.
Below is what happens.
C:\download\javamail-1.4\demo>set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;c:\download\javamail-1.4
\mail.jar;%CLASSPATH%;c:\download\jaf-1.1\activation.jar.
C:\download\javamail-1.4\demo>javac msgsend.java
C:\download\javamail-1.4\demo>java msgsend.java
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: msgsend/java
C:\download\javamail-1.4\demo>
I have tried fixing this error as well via forums and FAQs but it seems to be the most generic error.
One suggestion was to clear your classpath. I tried this with a test hello world program which was giving the same error - "NoClassDefFoundError". By clearing the classpath I was able to get the hello world program to run without this error. But I can't just clear the classpath in this instance because it needs to point to mail.jar and activation.jar for the program to compile.
Thanks again for all of your efforts. You are more appreciated than you know.

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I would like to thank warnerja for your advise about the classpath.
Thanks for the classpath information regarding the .jar files. Now when I start tomcat cat it runs appropriately. However I am still having a problem when i try to compile the message send demo. The message I get is javax.mail does not exist,(import javax.mail.) when I downloade the mail api I placed on the root of my D drive and i placed the mail and activation jar files in my lib folded of my Jakarta-3.2.1 lib folder. I graduated Chubb Institute back in october and am currently still looking for work so my memory but be a little fuzzy as to whether or not this is correct. Your help is greatly appreciated.

If you are just compiling the classes then you should check that the mail.jar file is in your compiler classpath. How you check and set it depends on how you are compiling it and on what system etc.

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Another person who doesn't understand how to set CLASSPATH.
Move those JARs into the same directory as your SendMailBean.java and do it like this:
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/classpath.html

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Hope this helps

Mail attachment not being attached

I am trying to send an attachment but it is not working. I have two versions of the mail function ... one for Entourage and the other for Mail. The Entourage version works ... but the one for Mail does not have the attachment and I cannot see what I am doing wrong. Here is the code:
on sendEmail(theMessage)
set subjectvar to "Monthly backup status for " & dateText
if strMailApplication is "Entourage" then
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set composeMessage to (a reference to (make new outgoing message ¬
with properties {recipient:{address:strRecipientAddr, display name:strRecipientName, recipient type:to recipient}, content:theMessage, subject:subjectvar} ¬
make new attachment at composeMessage with properties {file:strLogFile}
send composeMessage
end tell
else
tell application "Mail"
set mailversion to version as string
set theAttachment to strLogFile
set composeMessage to (a reference to (make new outgoing message))
tell composeMessage
make new to recipient with properties {address:strRecipientAddr, name:strRecipientName}
set the subject to subjectvar
set the content to theMessage
set the sender to strSenderAddr
tell content
make new attachment with properties {file name:theAttachment}
end tell
end tell
send composeMessage
end tell
end if
end sendEmail

I figured it out ... the problem was that I needed to specify the attached file name as an alias ... once I did that I was able to send the attachment.
Here is the relevant change:
set theAttachment to file strLogFile as alias

Need HELP - Need to send MIME attachements, not UU-encoded.

Some important recipients are unable to view attachments I send them b/c Mail, by default, sends UU-encoded attachements instead of MIME attachements.
Is there any way to configure Mail to send MIME attachements?
FYI to any other people having problems SENDING attachements (this took a while to figure out):
Google, Yahoo, and some other mail services are not particularly UU-encoding friendly, and the recipients at those addresses sometimes receive a bunch of garbled 'code' or 'script' instead of the actual attachment file.
I've read lots on these discussions from people trying to deal with READING MIME attachements that other people have sent them, but cannot find any info on switching the SENT preferences to use UU encoding for attachments instead of MIME.
If anyone can clarify, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP.
I use .mac to sync my 2 Mac Pros, MB Pro, iPhone, and three Mac Minis, so I'd really like to keep everything 'in sync' with Apple apps. Otherwise I'll have to switch to Entou-rage or Mozilla, which I don't really want to do...
Thanks in advance for any insight or advice...
- Sarge

I've taken the liberty of re-arranging your question for clarification.
Sarge_ wrote:
Some important recipients are unable to view attachments I send them b/c Mail, by default, sends UU-encoded attachements instead of MIME attachements.
I've read lots on these discussions from people trying to deal with READING MIME attachements that other people have sent them, but cannot find any info on switching the SENT preferences to use UU encoding for attachments instead of MIME.
Which one do you want to use? UU or MIME?
I do not think that Apple Mail sends UU-encoded attachments. UU is really old.
There are two settings that can fundamentally change the way Apple Mail sends messages.
1) Plain text vs. Rich text. With plain text you can't change the fonts or colors or anything else. There is a slight possibility that this mode sends UU attachments, but I can't check from the PC in front of me. Still, I doubt it. Rich text allows fancy fonts and colors.
2) Send Windows-friendly attachments. This will prevent Apple Mail from sending Macintosh-specific information in an e-mail message. In all cases, Apple Mail only sends standards-forming MIME e-mail messages, but many (all?) PC e-mail clients barf on this 100%-legal MIME e-mail message.
Is there any way to configure Mail to send MIME attachements?
Make sure that Windows-friendly attachments is turned on. The only downside is that other Mac users might not get resource data or might have problems with files lacking extensions. No one should be using resource data or files without extensions anymore, so this question is moot. If you do need to do that, wrap your files in a ZIP.
Google, Yahoo, and some other mail services are not particularly UU-encoding friendly, and the recipients at those addresses sometimes receive a bunch of garbled 'code' or 'script' instead of the actual attachment file.
This may happen regardless of what you do.
If anyone can clarify, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP.
Here is a little write-up I did a few years back on this issue. According the the Apple discusssion regulations, I should say that I do sell a MIME-decoding tool through the link above. However, that tool will not help you send MIME e-mail messages. I'm not trying to sell you anything. These days, any decent e-mail client can handle either UU or MIME messages with no problem. There are a few notable exceptions to this, and unfortunately, those exceptions tend to have millions of customers. It is getting better though.

Mail does not correctly reflect read status of Gmail IMAP messages

Apple Mail is no longer correctly reflecting the read status of emails that have been read on other devices/computers when viewing my Gmail IMAP inbox. Whereas my iPhone and Gmail account both show changes in items' read status immediately or on next mail retrieval, in Apple Mail the only way I have currently of updating the read status is to quit Mail and restart it. Neither automatic fetching of Mail, nor clicking "Get Mail", nor right-clicking the Inbox and choosing "Synchronize Gmail" work.
My other IMAP account (MobileMe) does not exhibit this behaviour, but Mail.app does this with Gmail on both of my desktop computers.
Anyone out there with a similar problem? And are there any possible solutions, or is it a bug/incompatibility with GMail?

This problem is still occurring for me in 10.5.5 - I even tested it by creating a new gmail account with only 1 message in it, in case it was a problem with large mailboxes, and the same thing happened.
Mail messages marked read elsewhere are not updated in Mail on the next send/receive. I wonder if everyone with this problem could report the bug at http://www.apple.com/support/feedback and see if we can get this solved in 10.5.6

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