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email with attachment problem

<html>
<head>
<title> Sending Email </title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// Read POST request params into global vars
$to = $_POST[‘to’];
$from = $_
POST[‘from’];
$subject = $_POST[‘subject’];
$message = $_
POST[‘message’];

// Obtain file upload vars
$fileatt = $HTTP_POST_FILES[‘fileatt’][‘tmp_name’];
$fileatt_type = $HTTP_POST_FILES[‘fileatt’][‘type’];
$fileatt_name = $HTTP_POST_FILES[‘fileatt’][‘name’];

$headers = “From: $from”;

if (is_uploaded_file($fileatt)) {
// Read the file to be attached (‘rb’ = read binary)
$file = fopen($fileatt,’rb’);
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
fclose($file);

// Generate a boundary string
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = “==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x”;

// Add the headers for a file attachment
$headers .= “nMIME-Version: 1.0n” .
“Content-Type: multipart/mixed;n” .
” boundary=”{$mime_boundary}””;

// Add a multipart boundary above the plain message
$message = “This is a multi-part message in MIME format.nn” .
“–{$mime_boundary}n” .
“Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”iso-8859-1″n” .
“Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitnn” .
$message . “nn”;

// Base64 encode the file data
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

// Add file attachment to the message
$message .= “–{$mime_boundary}n” .
“Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};n” .
” name=”{$fileatt_name}”n” .
//”Content-Disposition: attachment;n” .
//” filename=”{$fileatt_name}”n” .
“Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64nn” .
$data . “nn” .
“–{$mime_boundary}–n”;
}

// Send the message
ini_set(“SMTP”, “199.1.1.40”);
ini_set(“sendmail_from”, “[email protected]“);

$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($ok) {
echo “<p>Mail sent! Yay PHP!</p>”;
} else {
echo “<p>Mail could not be sent. Sorry!</p>”;
}
?>
</body>
</html>

i download this script … it works fine when i send an attachment to gmail

but if the attachment is sent to yahoo mail or hotmail … i can’t get the attachment and the msg … why?

is it the base64_encode? cos maybe they are not using that?

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