Sending email with attachment - email

Question

I've a custom form (created with form API) that need send an uploaded file by email. The current form submit handler sends the email without attachment using drupal_mail().
So I'm looking for a solution to properly send email with attachment from Drupal. Mime Mail seems an overkill because HTML mail, templating and its other features are not required. But the only other alternative I see is to set the appropriate headers and serialize the attached file in the mail body when processing the mail in my hook_mail() implementation.
Did I miss anything? Is there any module to handle this?

Answer 1

Mimemail is the easiest solution here. Be it an overkill or not, it will allow you to get it done with a single function call.
If you insist, you may have your homemade attachment sender: base64 encode your attachment(s), add them to the mail body, add the correct headers and you're done.

Answer 2

You can use mime mail and force the message body to be sent in plaintext format. Here is an excerpt from the module's readme file:
USAGE
This module may be required by other modules, but is not terribly
useful by itself. Once installed, any module can send messages by
calling the mimemail() function:
$sender - a user object, text email address or an array with name, mail
$recipient - a user object, text email address or an array with name, mail
$subject - subject line
$body - body text in HTML format
$plaintext - boolean, whether to send messages in plaintext-only (default FALSE)
$headers - a keyed array with headers (optional)
$text - plaintext portion of a multipart e-mail (optional)
$attachments - array of arrays with the file's path, MIME type (optional)
$mailkey - message identifier
return - an array containing the MIME encoded message
The key thing being to set the $plaintext argument to TRUE. Now you can have your cake and eat it too.

Answer 3

You could always have a look at the Swift Mailer module which lets you send HTML (MIME) e-mails, e-mails with inline images and e-mails with attachments. It is also cabable of automatically generating plain text versions based on the HTML e-mail version, which in the end will let the user's e-mail client display the preferred version (HTML or plain text).
The Swift Mailer module is available on http://drupal.org/project/swiftmailer.
For the record : I'm the author and maintainer of the module.

Answer 4

The Webform module allows you to create a form and has a file option which can be used as an attachment. All available form components are listed on the module's manual page.
Once installed Webform will appear as a content type. Once you have saved the fundamentals, such as the title and the email to address, you will have the ability to add the required form components.
Add a component of type 'file', ensuring the 'email' (to recipient) option is ticked, and you will then be able to customize the permitted file types, extensions, sizes and upload folder.

Answer 5

You could use the Zend Framework.
function sendEmail($params){
ini_set('include_path', 'inc/');
require_once ('inc/Zend/Mail.php');
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setSubject( $params['subject'] );
$mail->setBodyText( $params['bodyText'] );
$mail->setBodyHtml( $params['bodyHtml'] );
$mail->setFrom( $params['fromEmail'], $params['fromName'] );
$mail->addTo( $params['toEmail'], $params['toName'] );
// Finally, add an attachment
assert( file_exists($params['attachFile']) );
$at = $mail->addAttachment(file_get_contents($params['attachFile']));
$at->type = $params['attachType'];
$at->disposition = Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_ATTACHMENT;
$at->filename = $params['attachName'];
$mail->send();
}