The Mabry mail control

It sometimes failed to send a PDF as attachment correctly (the file is
trimmed by a few bytes).

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Man-wai
Wed Jun 27 02:57:25 CDT 2007

> And excuse me, is http://www.mabry.com still around? I was trying to
> find documentation...

In case the site is down, anyone knew where her mail control has a
property that governs encoding or type for the attachment?

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Man-wai
Wed Jun 27 02:08:18 CDT 2007

> It sometimes failed to send a PDF as attachment correctly (the file is
> trimmed by a few bytes).

And excuse me, is http://www.mabry.com still around? I was trying to
find documentation...

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Man-wai
Wed Jun 27 08:49:46 CDT 2007

> And excuse me, is http://www.mabry.com still around? I was trying to
> find documentation...

And if possible, could someone attach some documentation of the mail
control here?

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Josh
Wed Jun 27 11:20:53 CDT 2007

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:49:46 +0800, Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
wrote:

>> And excuse me, is http://www.mabry.com still around? I was trying to
>> find documentation...
>
>And if possible, could someone attach some documentation of the mail
>control here?

tha'ts against their eula; the documentation along with teh controls is
licensed; so if you don't have the docs; you probably don't have the license....

Ook
Wed Jun 27 14:17:44 CDT 2007

On Jun 27, 9:20 am, Josh Assing <Xjo...@jAssing.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:49:46 +0800, Man-wai Chang <toylet.toy...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> And excuse me, ishttp://www.mabry.comstill around? I was trying to
> >> find documentation...
>
> >And if possible, could someone attach some documentation of the mail
> >control here?
>
> tha'ts against their eula; the documentation along with teh controls is
> licensed; so if you don't have the docs; you probably don't have the license....

I have a license for the control, I'm looking at the .lic file right
now, but I couldn't tell you where the docs are, or even the install
files. Probably buried in a box somewhere in my office.

Didn't Mabry go belly up? IIRC, their website has been offline for a
while now.

Man-wai
Wed Jun 27 20:44:37 CDT 2007

> tha'ts against their eula; the documentation along with teh controls is
> licensed; so if you don't have the docs; you probably don't have the license....

No, my company did buy the control, but it seems that they have never
needed the documentation, until this time, when trying to attach a PDF
into a email. The receiver got a corrupted PDF.

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Man-wai
Wed Jun 27 20:45:29 CDT 2007

> I have a license for the control, I'm looking at the .lic file right
> now, but I couldn't tell you where the docs are, or even the install
> files. Probably buried in a box somewhere in my office.

Thank you first. Well, I am persuading my colleage to try BLAT, but he
didn't seem to have interest in that. :)

> Didn't Mabry go belly up? IIRC, their website has been offline for a
> while now.

That's what I am suspecting....

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Man-wai
Wed Jun 27 20:53:36 CDT 2007

> No, my company did buy the control, but it seems that they have never
> needed the documentation, until this time, when trying to attach a PDF
> into a email. The receiver got a corrupted PDF.

The PDF could be sent and received without problem if I use OutLook to
attach the PDF. If I then look at the source codes of the 2 messages,

Outlook one:
------=_NextPart_000_007B_01C7B8C9.778942D0
Content-Type: application/pdf;
name="706150005B.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="706150005B.pdf"

Using Mabry control:
------=_NextPart_000_0077_01C7B8C8.294FBCD0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="706150005B.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="706150005B.pdf"

The tail section of the attached files from Mabry was also different the
original PDF, and its size was reduced by 5 bytes.

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Ook
Wed Jun 27 23:55:15 CDT 2007

Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> I have a license for the control, I'm looking at the .lic file right
>> now, but I couldn't tell you where the docs are, or even the install
>> files. Probably buried in a box somewhere in my office.
>
> Thank you first. Well, I am persuading my colleage to try BLAT, but he
> didn't seem to have interest in that. :)
>

FWIW, I've used Mabry, CDO, and Blat. Blat has proven by far to be the
fastest and most reliable. I would not hesitate to use and recommend blat.

Ook
Thu Jun 28 00:02:05 CDT 2007

Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> No, my company did buy the control, but it seems that they have never
>> needed the documentation, until this time, when trying to attach a PDF
>> into a email. The receiver got a corrupted PDF.
>
> The PDF could be sent and received without problem if I use OutLook to
> attach the PDF. If I then look at the source codes of the 2 messages,
>
> Outlook one:
> ------=_NextPart_000_007B_01C7B8C9.778942D0
> Content-Type: application/pdf;
> name="706150005B.pdf"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="706150005B.pdf"
>
> Using Mabry control:
> ------=_NextPart_000_0077_01C7B8C8.294FBCD0
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="706150005B.pdf"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="706150005B.pdf"
>
> The tail section of the attached files from Mabry was also different the
> original PDF, and its size was reduced by 5 bytes.
>

I wonder if Mabry does not properly encode the file? You should be able
to extract the attachment from the source of the file that Mabry sends,
and see if you can manually decode the attachment. If not, then Mabry
did not properly encode it. That would be my fist guess. Also, try
sending the file with some other mail client and see how it encodes it.

Man-wai
Thu Jun 28 07:23:14 CDT 2007

Check the attachment of my previous message.

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Ook
Thu Jun 28 10:18:48 CDT 2007

On Jun 28, 5:23 am, Man-wai Chang <toylet.toy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Check the attachment of my previous message.
>
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I saw the header, but not the body of the attachment. I saw how one
sends it as type pdf, where mabry sends it base64 encoded. I still
suspect an encoding or decoding issue. Can you send me the source of
the received email as text? I will attempt to manually decode it and
see if that works or not. foxng at zootal dot com.