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Sending Fax by Email - no attachment

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We have an internal api that sends faxes directly from our database using php mailer. it sends both email and fax. for internal control purposes we need to continue to use this method rather than a new API just for faxes. It sends the fax / cover page, but does not send the pdf attachment.


PHP:

$fax = "888-812-6909";

$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // Passing `true` enables exceptions

$mail->SMTPOptions = array('ssl' => array('verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false));

$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

$mail->Encoding = "base64";

try {

//Server settings

$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP

$mail->Host = 'localhost'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers

$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // use TLS

$mail->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to


$mail->setFrom($faxFrom);

$mail->addReplyTo($faxFrom);


$sFax2 = $fax . "@rcfax.com";

$mail->addAddress($sFax2); // Add a recipient

$mail->addAttachment($tmpfname . "_bcst.pdf", "Home Report"); // Add attachments


//Content

$sSubject = "BROADCAST " . $home->FacilityName . " - " . $client->getStrName() . " - REFID:" . $row->id; // . " - FLID:" . $fl->id;

$mail->Subject = $sSubject;

$mail->Body = " ";

$mail->isHTML(false);


$mail->send();

} catch (Exception $e) {

}

}



peter@middleware:~$ cat /mnt/BinaryData/2022/FL107248.txt

SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 api.ca***nt.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)

CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO api.ca***nt.com

SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-api.ca***nt.com

250-PIPELINING

250-SIZE 50000000

250-VRFY

250-ETRN

250-STARTTLS

250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN

250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-8BITMIME

250-DSN

250 SMTPUTF8

CLIENT -> SERVER: STARTTLS

SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS

CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO api.ca***nt.com

SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-api.ca***nt.com

250-PIPELINING

250-SIZE 50000000

250-VRFY

250-ETRN

250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN

250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-8BITMIME

250-DSN

250 SMTPUTF8

CLIENT -> SERVER: MAIL FROM:<fax@ca***nt.com>

SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 2.1.0 Ok

CLIENT -> SERVER: RCPT TO:<888-812-6909@rcfax.com>

SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 2.1.5 Ok

CLIENT -> SERVER: DATA

SERVER -> CLIENT: 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>

CLIENT -> SERVER: Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:12:53 -0700

CLIENT -> SERVER: To: 888-812-6909@rcfax.com

CLIENT -> SERVER: From: fax@ca***nt.com

CLIENT -> SERVER: Reply-To: fax@ca***nt.com

CLIENT -> SERVER: Subject: BROADCAST Sanitized Subject - REFID:146230

CLIENT -> SERVER: Message-ID: <SNwrVIZ66yO9ff6ReAhARR2VGYT86DKoIdNAK9zh0@api.ca***nt.com>

CLIENT -> SERVER: X-Mailer: PHPMailer 6.0.3 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)

CLIENT -> SERVER: MIME-Version: 1.0

CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

CLIENT -> SERVER: boundary="b1_SNwrVIZ66yO9ff6ReAhARR2VGYT86DKoIdNAK9zh0"

CLIENT -> SERVER:

CLIENT -> SERVER: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

CLIENT -> SERVER: --b1_SNwrVIZ66yO9ff6ReAhARR2VGYT86DKoIdNAK9zh0

CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

CLIENT -> SERVER:

CLIENT -> SERVER: IA==

CLIENT -> SERVER:

CLIENT -> SERVER: --b1_SNwrVIZ66yO9ff6ReAhARR2VGYT86DKoIdNAK9zh0

CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Type: application/pdf; name="Home Report"

CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-ID: <Home Report>

CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Home Report"

CLIENT -> SERVER:

CLIENT -> SERVER: JVBERi0xLjQKMSAwIG9iago8PAovVGl0bGUgKP7/AEIAcgBvAGEAZABjAGEAcwB0KQovQ3JlYXRv

CLIENT -> SERVER: ciAo/v8AdwBrAGgAdABtAGwAdABvAHAAZABmACAAMAAuADEAMgAuADQpCi9Qcm9kdWNlciAo/v8A

...

CLIENT -> SERVER: MDI1NTQ5IDAwMDAwIG4gCjAwMDAwMzQxODUgMDAwMDAgbiAKMDAwMDAzNDY0MyAwMDAwMCBuIAow

CLIENT -> SERVER: MDAwMDM0MTY0IDAwMDAwIG4gCnRyYWlsZXIKPDwKL1NpemUgMjcKL0luZm8gMSAwIFIKL1Jvb3Qg

CLIENT -> SERVER: MTIgMCBSCj4+CnN0YXJ0eHJlZgozNTcyMQolJUVPRgo=

CLIENT -> SERVER:

CLIENT -> SERVER: --b1_SNwrVIZ66yO9ff6ReAhARR2VGYT86DKoIdNAK9zh0--

CLIENT -> SERVER:

CLIENT -> SERVER: .

SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 04268A2017C

CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT

SERVER -> CLIENT: 221 2.0.0 Bye

peter@middleware:~$


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