# Pleas help for forwarding an email **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 22, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pleas-help-for-forwarding-an-email/175927 "2009-09-22T23:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rabarama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rabarama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rabarama)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pleas-help-for-forwarding-an-email/175927/1 "2009-09-22T23:31:17Z")
I’m quite new to ruby, and something is driving me crazy. I’m working with emails, and i need to fw a email adding an header and a footer to the text. I’m having a lot of problems with multipart/alternative with attachments emails. I get the email from a pop mailbox, i get it as a tmail object and then i try to work with it… If i deliver the mail i get changing only “from, to, or subject” everythings goes right, but i can’t understand how to add someting to the body (in the html and in the plain part). I try to get parts and where a part is multipart i get parts of that part and so on rebuilding everypart i get to a new tmail object. When i find the text part i add my header to the body of that part . (Honestly i think this can’t be the best way to do this) This generates mail that loose html format, in line attachments name or attachment files. I can’t find any useful documentation, can someone here help me? If useful i will post some code… ---
**Author:** ![rabarama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rabarama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rabarama)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pleas-help-for-forwarding-an-email/175927/2 "2009-09-23T03:30:55Z")
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 04:30:10 pm rabarama wrote: > I’m working with emails, and i need to fw a email adding an header and a > footer to the text. > [snip] > I get the email from a pop mailbox, i get it as a tmail object > [snip] > I try to get parts and where a part is multipart i get parts of that part > and so on rebuilding everypart i get to a new tmail object. When i find the > text part i add my header to the body of that part . By “header” do you mean something that should show up at the beginning of the message, inside the body? If so, that should work. If you mean “header” as in an actual email header (like From, To, etc), you should probably be adding that to the message. > This generates mail that loose html format, in line attachments name or > attachment files. Please post some sample code. It sounds like you’re just trying to deliver that body. What you should be doing is storing the body back into the TMail object, then sending that object out. > I can’t find any useful documentation, can someone here help me? > **[LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You](https://lmgtfy.app/?q=tmail%2Bdocumentation)** > > For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves. Or, you could be more specific about how the existing documentation isn’t useful. It was pretty useful to me. > If useful i will post some code… I think you’ve got it backwards. You post code, then we can maybe give you useful advice. Without code, I’m just guessing here. ---
**Author:** ![rabarama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rabarama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rabarama)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 10:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pleas-help-for-forwarding-an-email/175927/3 "2009-09-23T10:16:06Z")
> I think you’ve got it backwards. You post code, then we can maybe give you > useful advice. Without code, I’m just guessing here. (Right, i want a text before the first line of the email, not an email header) thanks… here is the code i use… ( uses actionmailer and i call it by Mailer\_deliver\_mymailer(tmail) ) It’s a 3 level function couse i continued to add levels i found in the emails. It should be recoursive, but by now 3 is the max level it seems to me a email can reach. My email test is a multipart/alternative email with 2 inline images and 2 attachments. I comment attachments code couse working only with parts should work also att. In this code is not present the part where i add my text, but when i get the original mail from this it will be easy go on. This mailer sends a mail with only text part visible, and an html attachment with the html version. No other attachment is in the mail. def mymailer(mail) ``` subject mail.subject recipients mail.to[0] from mail.from[0] sent_on Time.now if mail.multipart? then content_type 'multipart/alternative' mail.parts.each do |p| if p.content_type=="multipart/related" then part 'multipart/related' do |mp| p.parts.each do |sp| if sp.multipart? then mp.content_type 'multipart/alternative' mp.part 'multipart/related' do |mmp| sp.parts.each do |ssp| mmp.part :content_type => ssp.content_type, :disposition => ssp.disposition, # :charset => ssp.charset, :transfer_encoding => ``` ssp.transfer\_encoding, :body =\> ssp.body ``` end ``` # if sp.has\_attachments? then # sp.attachments.each do |aa| # mmp.attachment :content\_type =\> aa.content\_type, # :original\_filename =\> aa.original\_filename, # :body =\> aa.read # # end # # end ``` end else mp.part :content_type => sp.content_type, :disposition => sp.disposition, :transfer_encoding => ``` sp.transfer\_encoding, :body =\> sp.body # if p.has\_attachments? then # p.attachments.each do |aa| # mp.attachment :content\_type =\> aa.content\_type, # :original\_filename =\> aa.original\_filename, # :body =\> aa.read # end # end ``` end# sp multipart? end end else #p not multipart part :content_type => p.content_type, :disposition => p.disposition, :transfer_encoding => p.transfer_encoding, :body => p.body end # multipart/related end # parts cycle end # if multipart #here code for non multipart emails... ``` end ---
**Author:** ![rabarama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rabarama](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rabarama)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pleas-help-for-forwarding-an-email/175927/4 "2009-09-23T11:10:33Z")
i’ve done it in another way (with the same results ☹ ) def partworker(p,mp) if p.multipart? then mp.part ‘multipart/related’ do |mmp| p.parts.each do |pp| partworker(pp,mmp) end end else mp.part :content\_type =\> p.content\_type, :disposition =\> p.disposition, :transfer\_encoding =\> p.transfer\_encoding, :body =\> p.body end end def mailer(mail) subject mail.subject recipients mail.to[0] from mail.from[0] sent\_on Time.now if mail.multipart? then part ‘multipart/related’ do |mp| mail.parts.each do |p| partworker(p,mp) end end end end