Luc,
Another little trick to make this code more portable (ie: being able to
save the file after it's been downloaded to Unix or NT) would be to use the
'File.separator' character in lieu of the \\ like so:
String correctFileName =
filename.substring(filename.lastIndexOf(File.separator));
Erik Sahl
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 8:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: [SERVLET/JAVAMAIL ] name of mailed files
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>
> As usual you're right Craig,
>
> in case it could help others the right piece of code is:
> // attach the file to the message
> FileDataSource fds=new FileDataSource(filename);
> mbp2.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(fds));
> String correctFileName =
> filename.substring(filename.lastIndexOf("\\") + 1);
> mbp2.setFileName(correctFileName );
>
>
>
> Le 10:05 21/09/99 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan a �crit:
> > [snip]
> > MimeBodyPart mbp2 = new MimeBodyPart();
> > // attach the file to the message
> > FileDataSource fds=new FileDataSource(filename);
> > mbp2.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(fds));
> > mbp2.setFileName(filename);
> > [snip]
>
> Can't you just strip off the directory part of "filename" before you call
> setFileName()? By that point, you've already set up the data
> source for the
> attachment, so JavaMail knows where to find it. My understanding is that
> whatever you set with setFileName() is the proposed filename that
> the message
> receiver sees.
>
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