delphiemail-attachmentsmultipartmime-message

How to create multipart/related attachment of JPG file in Delphi?


I'm trying to create multipart/related attachment with such code:

var
 Msg: TIdMessage;
 Attachment: TIdAttachmentFile;
begin
 Msg := TIdMessage.Create(nil);
 try
  Attachment := TIdAttachmentFile.Create(Msg.MessageParts, 'D:\temp\CachedImage.jpg');
  Attachment.ContentType := 'multipart/related';
  Attachment.ContentTransfer := 'binary';
  Attachment.ContentDisposition := 'attachment; filename="CachedImage.jpg"';
  Msg.SaveToFile('d:\temp\MyFile.eml');
 finally
  Msg.Free;
 end;
end;

I'm expecting that it saves the attached file as EML file. But it does not.

Saved only part of the header and nothing more:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 09:38:31 +0300
--
Content-Type: multipart/related;
    boundary="0dZDwVffh1i=_ZLFRXeMyvVY4y2H5QDJoX"

How to fix such issue? I'm using Delphi 10.4.2 with installed Indy version.


Solution

  • The code you have shown is not even remotely close to being correct. Why would you assign a JPG file to be the multipart/related part itself?

    Please read HTML Messages and New HTML Message Builder class on Indy's website for the proper way to use multipart/related in TIdMessage. You are supposed to put the JPG file inside of a multipart/related part that also holds a text/html part which the JPG is related to (ie, which refers to the JPG).

    For example:

    var
      Msg: TIdMessage;
      HTML: TIdText;
      Attachment: TIdAttachmentFile;
    begin
      Msg := TIdMessage.Create(nil);
      try
        Msg.ContentType := 'multipart/related; type="text/html"'; 
        HTML := TIdText.Create(Msg.MessageParts, nil);
        HTML.Body.Text := '<img src="cid:12345">';
        HTML.ContentType := 'text/html';
        Attachment := TIdAttachmentFile.Create(Msg.MessageParts, 'D:\temp\CachedImage.jpg');
        Attachment.ContentID := '12345'
        Attachment.ContentType := 'image/jpeg';
        Attachment.ContentTransfer := 'binary';
        Msg.SaveToFile('d:\temp\MyFile.eml');
      finally
        Msg.Free;
      end;
    end;
    

    Or

    var
      Msg: TIdMessage;
    begin
      Msg := TIdMessage.Create(nil);
      try
        Builder := TIdMessageBuilderHtml.Create;
        try
          Builder.Html.Text := '<img src="cid:12345">';
          Builder.HtmlFiles.Add('D:\temp\CachedImage.jpg', '12345');
          Builder.FillMessage(Msg);
        finally
          Builder.Free;
        end;
        Msg.SaveToFile('d:\temp\MyFile.eml');
      finally
        Msg.Free;
      end;
    end;