[Web4lib] Question: can a generic unix email handle a local file attachment on a webform

[Avril Cunningham]

Weblibbers,

I have asked our webmaster to add some functionality to our Library 
Instruction Request Form located at
http://www.csupomona.edu/~library/html/libinst.html
Namely, I would like the faculty member requesting instruction to be able 
to upload their assignment/syllabus into the webform ( ala 
http://www.library.fullerton.edu/instructionrequest) so the teaching 
librarian has all that information from the moment they request instruction.

My webperson is saying that our webforms can't handle a local file as an 
attachment, or at least she is not sure of the code to accomplish this.

Do any of you out there have examples of some pages and code that I can 
give to her so we can get this done?

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Avril Cunningham
Instruction Coordinator
California State Polytechnic Univeristy, Pomona
acunningham at csupomona.edu


 >>>>>>>>Fullerton is using asp versus ours which is a perl script form 
email.  The script does not have a feature to capture a "text" file.  I 
also don't think a unix email can handle very large file as part of the 
text.  I need more time to look into if the unix email is possible to 
handle a local attachment.

If you know off hand that generic unix email can handle a local file as an 
attachment, please let me know.