Pony doesn't send email body correctly when the attachment is .html file?

Question

When sending emails with attachments (html files) to gmail the email body is not sent. If I comment out the attachment settings below it went ok. If it happens that the email doesn't have any attachments it went ok.

I tested out that the issues is caused only when the file has the extension of "html". Other files like log, png are ok.

• ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i386-mingw32]
• mime-types (1.18)
• pony (1.4)

How can I send .html files in my send mail function correctly?

Update: I added an extract from the received email and the email body is present as the middle mimepart. Search for Content-ID: <4fdfd7725ba26_a0c1a825dc8363d@RATionalxp.mail>

def email_it(body, subject, to, from, attachment_to_send)

  $smtp = 'mail.com.au'
  $smtp_port = 25

  body_with_footer = body +Email_footer

    Pony.mail(
        :to => to, 
        :from => from,
        :subject => subject, 
        :body => Nokogiri::HTML(body_with_footer).text, 
        :html_body =>  body_with_footer, 
        :attachments => attachment_to_send,
        :via => :smtp, 
        :via_options => {
                :address     => $smtp,
                :port     => $smtp_port,
                :enable_starttls_auto => false
        }
    )
end

Extract from the received email

Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="--==_mimepart_4fdfd77251dac_a0c1a825dc83328";
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



----==_mimepart_4fdfd77251dac_a0c1a825dc83328
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:35:46 +1000
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <4fdfd7725ba26_a0c1a825dc8358f@RATionalxp.mail>

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ZXhwcmVzcylPdmVyYWxswqByZXN1bHQ6wqBmYWlswqBBbnTCoHJ1bsKgdG9v
azrCoG5vYm9kecKga25vd3PCoDstKcKgUmVzdG9yaW5nwqBmcm9twqAvdmFy
L2xpYi9lZHVtYXRlL2JkcnMvbG9xdWF0L2RhdGFiYXNlcy93ZWVrbHkvTE9R
VUFULjAuZGIyaW5zdDEuTk9ERTAwMDAuQ0FUTjAwMDAuMjAxMjA2MTAwMjMw
MDYuMDAxVGltZXN0YW1wwqBvZsKgYmFja3VwwqBpbWFnZcKgaXM6wqAxMMKg
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wqB0b29rOsKgMDowMDozOC0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0t
LURldGFpbHPCoGZvcsKgYWxswqBSYXRpb25hbMKgdGVzdMKgc3VpdHMtLS0t
LS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS1FZHVtYXRlX3VwZ3JhZGU6wqBs
b2fCoGZpbGXCoG5vdMKgY3JlYXRlZC7CoEVycm9ywqBpbsKgcHJldmlvdXPC
oHRlc3TCoHN1aXTCoChzdG9wT25GYWlsdXJlPSd0cnVlJynCoG9ywqBpbsKg
YW50wqBydW7CoGl0c2VsZi5Qb3dlcmVkIGJ5IEVkdVRlc3RlciBodHRwOi8v
MTAuMC4wLjUw


----==_mimepart_4fdfd77251dac_a0c1a825dc83328
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:35:46 +1000
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-ID: <4fdfd7725ba26_a0c1a825dc8363d@RATionalxp.mail>

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----==_mimepart_4fdfd77251dac_a0c1a825dc83328
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:35:46 +1000
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
 charset=UTF-8;
 filename=rational_ft_logframe.html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment;
 filename=rational_ft_logframe.html
Content-ID: <4fdfd77259308_a0c1a825dc834d0@RATionalxp.mail>

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="charset" CONTENT="utf-8">

update2

from pony google group (not my words)

I have a similar but simpler example.

Pony.mail to: 'me@test.com', 
   from: 'test@test.com',
   subject: 'test attachments',
   html_body: '<p>HTML</p>',
   body: 'Text',
   attachments: { File.basename(a_file_path) => File.read(a_file_path) }

I believe the content-type and the boundaries are not being set properly. With the above code, I will only see the attachment, I will not see the HTML or text bodies, although they are being sent correctly. I can see them if I look at alternatives (Option-Command-] on OSX Mail), and they appear correctly. The content-type is set to multipart/alternative, there is no Content-Disposition. I believe in this case, we are sending the html, plain text, and attachment all as alternatives, rather than 2 alternatives with an attachment, which I believe is mixed, although setting the content-type multipart/mixed doesn't seem to work either: all 3 appear inline with each other.

Answer 1

My workaround is to rename .htm(l) files to .txt prior to attaching.

Answer 2

For me it worked by adding

headers: { "Content-Type" => "multipart/mixed" }

as a parameter to Pony.mail.

Answer 3

Put this attachment under via option like this

Pony.mail to: 'me@test.com', 
   from: 'test@test.com',
   subject: 'test attachments',
   html_body: '<p>HTML</p>',
   body: 'Text',
   :via_options => { :port => '25',
                     :address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
                     :enable_starttls_auto => true, 
                     :attachments: { File.basename(a_file_path) => File.read(a_file_path)}
                    }