[imp] Problems with attached files (base64_encode() issue)

[Fred N. Souza]

Hello,

  I'm running IMP 3.2.3 installed from the ports system on a FreeBSD
  5.2.1-RELEASE box. The Horde/IMP ports installed fine, but we are
  experiencing a strange error. Whenever you try and send an attached
  file with the mail, the message gets sent but without the attached
  parts. Here's the only relevant log we can find about it, laying on
  /var/log/httpd-error.log:

  [Thu May  6 17:56:55 2004] [error] PHP Warning:  base64_encode()
  expects parameter 1 to be string, object given in
  /var/vpopmail/www/horde/imp/compose.php on line 356

  The line in question would be:

  $encoded_contents = base64_encode($contents);

  And $contents is indeed worked out before that call. I tried messing
  around with it (I'm not a PHP coder, though) and changing the next
  call, for chunk_split(), to:

  $contents = chunk_split($contents, 76, "\n");

  With, of course, commenting out the complaining function call to
  base64_encode(). No luck. The messages gets sent with the attachments,
  but they're all corrupted/changed.

  I've searched the list for help on this issue, found a couple of
  topics similar but nothing that could help me fix that. Is this a
  known issue? I haven't found anything on it on the bug tracker either.

  Can anyone point me to what to do to get it fixed?

  Thank you all in advance,
  
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Fred N. Souza
FreeBSD Brasil LTDA - http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br/