Mail Changing Attachment Names

Does anyone find that their Mac Mail changes attachment names into something like ??Q?documentname?=? so you are unable to open them unless you rename and save?
I think I have narrowed it down to only happening with attachments that have a long(ish!) filename. It only happens when a Mac computer recieves. Doesn't matter if a Mac or Windows machine sends the mail.
Any help appreciated as 50% of my attachments are coming through in this format. V frustrating!

Are you sure your RECEIVING email client isn't doing the conversion?
Thank you for the help.
It wasn't actually the email client at the other end, but rather a third-party photo app on my iPad - Photogene.
I had been sending the screenshot as an email attachment from within Photogene. It seems that this app was converting it to the JPEG format. When I simply chose the image from the Camera Roll - directly in the Mail app - the PNG format was kept.
Thanks again.

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Change attachment name using mail adapter

Hi All,
I have a problem changing the attachment name in my scenario. I use Mail scenario to send a pdf Attachment from R/3 to email address. Everything working fine except the attachment name that becoming untitled.pdf and untitled.txt.
Communication Channel setting :
message protocol : xipayload
transport protocol : smtp
checked use mail package
checked keep attachment
I have use MessageTransformBean in my receiver adapter, but no luck. It was produce an error.
anyone have an idea to solve my problem?
thx,
Robby

Hi,
You need to go to the Module tab of the Mail adapter receiver communcation channel and give the parameter as Transform.contentDisposition and its value as attachment ( since you needed the output to be sent as an attachment) and give the name of the attachment as you required.
Please see the help page : [http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/57/0b2c4142aef623e10000000a155106/frameset.htm] for more details and more options of the parameters.
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Sender mail adapter - attachment name

Hi there
We have configured a sender email adapter to receive text/csv attachments and save them to a file system. What we are having a problem with is reading the attachment name. So we are using Dynamis Configuration to create the file name using the subject line - Which is not ideal. Ideally we would like to use the same name as the origianl attachment but haven't found any way of doing that. We even tried using Content-type in the Variable Header (XHeaderName1) suing variable transport binding but it doesn't show up in the Dynamic Config part of the SOAP message.
Is there any way of reading the name of the file attachment? We are on PI release 7.0.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
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Hi Vitor
There are 2 scenarios that I can think of -
1. You are saving the email attachment as a file. In that case use step 3 in the earlier reply to get the attachment name and save the file witht that name.
2. You are sending the XML straight to a receiver using HTTP, IDOC, JDBC etc. in which case you would need the attachment name much earlier that step 3. For that I guess you would have to write another adapter module on the sender mail adapter(at Position 3 where position1 = payloadswap bean, 2 = custom module to get the attachment name) and add an xml tag to your incoming message. These adapter modules are really powerful and are like user exits in ABAP. In that case you would have to change the Data Type in the Integration repository to reflect that extra tag. Here is some code from a module we wrote to totally change the structure of the xml coming in. The key thing to remember is this module is that you can read the whole message byte by byte. There might be smarter ways of doing it (like using the SAP XML parser factory class) but since I'm not a Java programmer I stuck to the basics. Here's the code( you could also look at the example given in sap help where they remove (or add I'm not sure) CR(carriage return) from CRLF (CR Line feed).
Created on Aug 8, 2007
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package jdbcPackage;
import javax.ejb.CreateException;
import javax.ejb.SessionBean;
import javax.ejb.SessionContext;
import com.sap.aii.af.mp.module.*;
import com.sap.aii.af.ra.ms.api.*;
@author Salil.Mehta Soltius NZ Ltd
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public class jdbcClass implements SessionBean, Module {
 private SessionContext myContext;
 public void ejbRemove() {
 public void ejbActivate() {
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 public void ejbCreate() throws CreateException {
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 ModuleData inputModuleData)
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 try {
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 XMLPayload payload = msg.getDocument();
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 int i;
 int j;
 int actualCount = 0;
 char xmlTagFound = ' ';
 char endXmlTagFound = ' ';
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 // convert " to "
 // This will remove any carriage returns and line feeds
 // and the <XML* and </XML* tags plus the <row> and </row> tags
 for (i = 0; i < payByte.length; i++) {
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 if (payByteTemp == '&') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 1] == 'l') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 2] == 't') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 3] == ';') {
 payByteTemp = '<';
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 payByteTemp[i + 2] = '\n';
 payByteTemp[i + 3] = '\n';
 if (payByteTemp == '&') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 1] == 'g') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 2] == 't') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 3] == ';') {
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 payByteTemp[i + 1] = '\n';
 payByteTemp[i + 2] = '\n';
 payByteTemp[i + 3] = '\n';
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 if (payByteTemp[i + 1] == 'q') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 2] == 'u') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 3] == 'o') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 4] == 't') {
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 payByteTemp[i + 1] = '\n';
 payByteTemp[i + 2] = '\n';
 payByteTemp[i + 3] = '\n';
 payByteTemp[i + 4] = '\n';
 payByteTemp[i + 5] = '\n';
 // This will take in the initial xml declaration from the Byte array
 // And we also don't want the stuff after the xml declaration till
 // we reach the first <row> tag
 if (xmlTagFound == ' ') {
 if (payByteTemp == '>') {
 xmlTagFound = 'X';
 payByteOut[actualCount++] = payByteTemp;
 if (xmlTagFound == 'X') {
 payByteOut[actualCount++] = '\r';
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 if (xmlTagFound == 'X') {
 if (payByteTemp == '<') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 1] == 'r') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 2] == 'o') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 3] == 'w') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 4] == '>') {
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 if ((payByteTemp == '\r') || (payByteTemp == '\n')) {
 continue;
 // <XML_*> tag
 if (payByteTemp == '<') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 1] == 'X') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 2] == 'M') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 3] == 'L') {
 tagFound = 'X';
 endXmlTagFound = ' ';
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 if (payByteTemp == '<') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 1] == '/') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 2] == 'X') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 3] == 'M') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 4] == 'L') {
 tagFound = 'X';
 endXmlTagFound = 'X';
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 if (payByteTemp == '<') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 1] == 'r') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 2] == 'o') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 3] == 'w') {
 if (payByteTemp[i + 4] == '>') {
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 if (payByteTemp[i + 5] == '>') {
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Hello all,
I have a scenario IDOC -> PI -> MAIL.
In my output mail, i want,for example and by default, that my attachment's name is "document1.xml".
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In my output mail, i want,for example and by default, that my attachment's name is "document1.xml".
Check the third example shown in this blog: /people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/07/mail-adapter-scenarios-150-sap-exchange-infrastructure
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I have a following problem with mail attachments: When I drag the attachment from my mail window onto my desktop, the attachment name changes to "unknown". So for example, "cat.jpg" would become "unknown.jpg". To make this a bit more complicated, the problem is a bit random and from this it follows that sometimes the file keeps the original and correct file name and sometimes it changes it. Also, this problem occurs only when I drag the attachment (which normally is image) from email window, but if I pull the attachment from above the message window, where it has a little arrow and it shows all the attachment icons, this problem does not happen. I am running Tiger and Mail 2.1. It would we really great if you could take a sec to answer this if you have any idea at all what this problem might to be. Thanks!
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