PDFs attached to emails work... except for GMail recipients

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jtappero
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Joined: Fri Jun 16 2006

PDFs attached to emails work... except for GMail recipients

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Has anyone experienced problems with PDFs created with the Amyuni PDF driver v2.5.1 that are attached to emails sent to a gmail.com address? I know that Gmail scans and attempts to present PDFs in a friendly way, but it completely fails on PDF attachments that are created by Amyuni. When a gmail recipient opens the email, they see the text of the email followed by the MIME encoding of the PDF, like so....

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Thank you for your reservation!  Attached is your reservation details.  If you have trouble viewing this attachment, please call our reservation center at (800)555-1212 and mention reservation number 253381000.

begin 666 Res#2533810002007-04-12 14.38.29.pdf
M)5!$1BTQ+C,-"B7_____#0HQ(# @;V)J#3P\#2]4:71L92 H;6%M;6]T:&-O
M;F8V+3@M,#8N9G)X*0TO4')O9'5C97(@*$%M>75N:2!$;V-U;65N="!#;VYV
M97)T97(I#2]697)S:6]N("A697)S:6]N(#(N,3!A("T@3&EC96YS960@=&\@.....
There is no option to view or download the PDF. Gmail just considers it part of the text body. Is this a case where the created PDF is not 100% compatible with the PDF specification, or is this a bug in Gmail? In Google's Gmail help forum, I found a few other people experiencing this problem, but I don't know what programs created their PDF attachments. BTW, these same emails sent to other non-Gmail recipients work and display properly.
jtappero
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Joined: Fri Jun 16 2006

Post by jtappero »

Figured it out. CDOSYS has a "MimeFormatted" property, which I was setting to FALSE. It needs to be set to TRUE for gmail to process it properly as an attachment.
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