Freron MailMate

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  Des Dougan December 29th, 2016 @ 09:37 PM

  emate is not handling attachments via variable where the attachment has spaces in the filename (even when setting the variable escapes the spaces). It used to do so, so it appears something has regressed.

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  benny December 30th, 2016 @ 08:42 AM

  I could not reproduce this. Could you provide an example to help me out? I'm a bit confused by the “via variable” comment. Attachments are provided as simple command line arguments.

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  Des Dougan December 30th, 2016 @ 03:03 PM

  Benny,

  Apologies for not being clear. I use Hazel on my Mac; one of my rules takes a downloaded PDF and as part of the processing, emails it to my wife, using an inbuilt variable for the attachment name.

  At some point recently, it stopped sending the attachments. What I did to debug it was to do it manually using the -v option. Doing so I found, when the attachment name is stored as a variable, it behaves as I found (I have hidden my Gmail address):

  From the command line:

  
Des-MacBook:Downloads Des$ /usr/local/bin/emate mailto -v -t xxxxxxxx@gmail.com -s "Test" --send-now web\ protection2.pdf
Telling MailMate to open: mailto:?to=xxxxxxxx%40gmail.com&subject=Test&attachment-url=file:///Users/Des/Downloads/web%20protection2.pdf&send-now=yes


  Storing the filename as a variable:

  
Des-MacBook:Downloads Des$ att=web\ protection2.pdf
Des-MacBook:Downloads Des$ echo $att
web protection2.pdf
Des-MacBook:Downloads Des$ /usr/local/bin/emate mailto -v -t xxxxxxxx@gmail.com -s "Test" --send-now $att
Telling MailMate to open: mailto:?to=xxxxxxxx%40gmail.com&subject=Test&attachment-url=file:///Users/Des/Downloads/web&attachment-url=file:///Users/Des/Downloads/protection2.pdf&send-now=yes


  I hope this clarifies the issue for you.

  Thanks,

  Des

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  Des Dougan January 7th, 2017 @ 07:18 PM

  Benny,

  Were you able to reproduce this behaviour?

  Thanks,

  Des

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  benny January 8th, 2017 @ 01:14 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “resolved”

  Sorry about the late reply. As far as I can see, it's expected behavior. MailMate (emate) doesn't know anything about the $att variable. It's expanded by bash and becomes two command line values instead of one. But you just need to use "$att" instead to make it work.

  I'm not really sure why this ever worked though...