problems with storing image attachments of emails

[Si Chen <si...@opensourcestrategies.com>]

Hi everyone.

I wanted to find out if anybody is using storeIncomingEmail to store  
emails with image attachments.  It is having a couple of problems:  
documents with images are not stored correctly, and if you send two  
different images, the same one is stored twice.  If someone else has  
seen these problems or, even better, a fix for it, I'd really like to  
know.

Also, just out of curiosity, why are we storing images in the  
database in ImageDataResource instead of as a file on the server?

Si

Re: problems with storing image attachments of emails

[David E Jones <jo...@ofbiz.org>]

Si Chen wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I wanted to find out if anybody is using storeIncomingEmail to store 
> emails with image attachments.  It is having a couple of problems: 
> documents with images are not stored correctly, and if you send two 
> different images, the same one is stored twice.  If someone else has 
> seen these problems or, even better, a fix for it, I'd really like to know.
> 
> Also, just out of curiosity, why are we storing images in the database 
> in ImageDataResource instead of as a file on the server?

I haven't looked at the code so I have no idea on the other stuff. On this last question: file on the server is a PAIN! Especially if you have multiple servers in a pool. At least with a database it is available to all servers, backed up with the other data, etc.

-David