Rails - Jun 2006 - Reading email attachments

Is anyone sucessfully reading email attachments?

I have had some luck in my local dev environment but only get partial 
files on my hosted server (TxD) and then only sometimes.

I use something like this....

Net::POP3.start("widespreadsolutions.com", nil, "briefcase",
"y902xas")
do |pop|
      if pop.mails.empty?
        logger.info "NO MAIL"
      else
        pop.mails.each do |email|

          begin
            logger.info "receiving mail..."
            MailReader.receive(email.pop)
            email.delete
          rescue Exception => e
            logger.error "Error receiving email at " + Time.now.to_s +
"::: " + e.message
          end
        end
      end
    end

And then this in MailReader (after it has been converted to a Tmail 
object)

if mail.has_attachments?
        for email_attachment in mail.attachments
          RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.info ''creating attachment''
          attachment = Attachment.new
          attachment.uploaded_file( email_attachment, attachment )
          c.attachments << attachment if attachment.save
          c.save
        end
      end


Attachment#uploaded file looks like this
  def uploaded_file( incoming_file, attachable )
    self.filename = incoming_file.original_filename
    self.content_type = incoming_file.content_type
    dir = 
"#{RAILS_ROOT}/attachments/#{attachable.type}/#{attachable.id}"
    Dir.mkdir( dir ) unless File.exists?( dir )
    self.path = "#{dir}/#{self.filename}"

    File.open(self.path, "wb") do |f|
      f.write(incoming_file.read)
    end
  end

Should I be able to read from the file like this? I am finding very 
little TMail documentation that is useful.

Thanks

Gareth
www.widespreadsolutions.com

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