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CFPOP Attachments
Posted on 2004-10-01
Hi all, I was wonder if someone can help me out with a problem. I am setting up a standard CFPOP page to display a users email. I was wondering if there was any way to store the users email attachment that they receive and insert it into a SQL Database. The final goal is to log all emails incoming and outgoing. I figured I would use SQL2000 To store all email info this way everything can be easily searched thru by date or user and so on. I am just lost on what to do with the attachment itself, should I store them in a database as Binary, not sure and some help or Ideas would greatly be appreciated. I am also open to storing all attachments in a folder, I just need a way to link them to the Database Record. Thanks for your time
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If you stored then in a folder then just store the path to the folder in the database record. You can use cffile's attributes to get the path to where the attachment was saved....
Hi joebox,
1) it is good idea to store images into the folder. My company does that. We have images with their unique name in the database.
Sample database example:
1) nameoftheoriginalfile
2) modifiedfilename
3) datetimeinserted
4) pathstored
now we store all the files in the different folder for our usage. Well whatever the file is uploaded we rename those file with the applicationid and currenttimewithyr so it has now new uniquename.
We also save the current filename inthe database field. This is the way we have optimized our system. My company is one of the largest in USA to serve the images. That is really good as my company is not in porn business and we have so many hits.
Regards,
---Pinal
1) it is good idea to store images into the folder. My company does that. We have images with their unique name in the database.
Sample database example:
1) nameoftheoriginalfile
2) modifiedfilename
3) datetimeinserted
4) pathstored
now we store all the files in the different folder for our usage. Well whatever the file is uploaded we rename those file with the applicationid and currenttimewithyr so it has now new uniquename.
We also save the current filename inthe database field. This is the way we have optimized our system. My company is one of the largest in USA to serve the images. That is really good as my company is not in porn business and we have so many hits.
Regards,
---Pinal
I like both answers and is how i propably would have done it. I was just curious as to if there was any benefits of storing as binary in a database, but I guess not cause noone suggested it. Doing it the way you guys say with cffile is there anyway to only accept certain attachment extensions. For instance not to accept any attachments with a .exe file type??? I will probably split the points with you guys unless one of you can pull thru with this answer I will also add points to it. thanks again for all your help and ideas.... Joe
sure, what you can do is specify what kind of mime type you want to upload. It is associated iwth your CFfile and you can specify what kind of file extention you want to upload.
<cffile
action = "upload"
fileField = "formfield"
destination = "full_path_name"
nameConflict = "behavior"
accept = "mime_type/file_type"
mode = "permission"
attributes = "file_attribute_or_list">
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-p35.htm#wp3540091
Limits the MIME types to accept. Comma-delimited list. For example, to permit JPG and Microsoft Word file uploads:
accept = "image/jpg, application/msword"
The browser uses file extension to determine file type.
Regards,
---Pinal
<cffile
action = "upload"
fileField = "formfield"
destination = "full_path_name"
nameConflict = "behavior"
accept = "mime_type/file_type"
mode = "permission"
attributes = "file_attribute_or_list">
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-p35.htm#wp3540091
Limits the MIME types to accept. Comma-delimited list. For example, to permit JPG and Microsoft Word file uploads:
accept = "image/jpg, application/msword"
The browser uses file extension to determine file type.
Regards,
---Pinal
Watch out for the accept string PinalDave mentioned.
It is buggy and for example
accept = "image/jpg" will not allow jpeg images sent from a mac.
Personally, I would save ALL attachements.
But when displaying since you know the name of the attachment - including filetype - do not allow the user to access any restricted extention types. Instead display a message saying something like :
Filename : XXXXXXXXXXXX.exe is a restricted filetype. Access Denied.
This way also saves you in the case that the director/manager comes and says "I need that file". You can then recover it on a case-by-case basis, but you prevent the majority which are not legit, but most likely viruses.
It is buggy and for example
accept = "image/jpg" will not allow jpeg images sent from a mac.
Personally, I would save ALL attachements.
But when displaying since you know the name of the attachment - including filetype - do not allow the user to access any restricted extention types. Instead display a message saying something like :
Filename : XXXXXXXXXXXX.exe is a restricted filetype. Access Denied.
This way also saves you in the case that the director/manager comes and says "I need that file". You can then recover it on a case-by-case basis, but you prevent the majority which are not legit, but most likely viruses.
mrichmon-
can you elabortate a little more, i think I like your approach better. So what your saying is to save all attachents to a folder and when the user views thier mail, if that mail has an attachemnt with an .exe then just dont display it in thier mail message.
So once the file name is written to Database then I could do a plain <cfif mail.attachment contains "exe"> then dont display. Is this kind of where you are going..... joe
can you elabortate a little more, i think I like your approach better. So what your saying is to save all attachents to a folder and when the user views thier mail, if that mail has an attachemnt with an .exe then just dont display it in thier mail message.
So once the file name is written to Database then I could do a plain <cfif mail.attachment contains "exe"> then dont display. Is this kind of where you are going..... joe
Yes.
I assume that in your example mail is the query name?
If so then that is the exact kind of logic.
Something like:
<cfset restrictedfiles = "exe,scr,bat">
<cfloop index="attachment" list="attachmentlist">
<cfloop index="extension" list="restrictedfiles">
<cfif FindNoCase(extension, attachment)>
Access is restricted to the attachment named: <cfoutput>#attachment#</cf
<cfelse>
Display attachment or link to attachement
</cfif>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
I assume that in your example mail is the query name?
If so then that is the exact kind of logic.
Something like:
<cfset restrictedfiles = "exe,scr,bat">
<cfloop index="attachment" list="attachmentlist">
<cfloop index="extension" list="restrictedfiles">
<cfif FindNoCase(extension, attachment)>
Access is restricted to the attachment named: <cfoutput>#attachment#</cf
<cfelse>
Display attachment or link to attachement
</cfif>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
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