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1. bsieders
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Dear happy clappy people,

   whenever i run the postie script after sending an email with a regular jpg attachment I get the following report:

   Message Id is :
   Email has following attachments:
   text plain
   image jpeg
   primary= multipart, secondary = mixed
   primary= text, secondary = plain
   primary= image, secondary = jpeg
   could not write to temp file: ''

   All that shows up in my post is a missing image icon.
   I have checked that my uploads folder is set to 777 and the tmp folder will only allow 755.

   Any ideas?

   Thanks, Balti

2. valendesigns
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   it might be your servers temp folder its trying to write to and not uploads.

3. bsieders
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   wow thanks for the quick reply! i thought the latest version uploaded to the default wordpress folder? im pretty sure the "tmp" folder in uploads has been created by the plugin, any ideas how i can set it to 777 if it says permission denied?

4. valendesigns
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   You know what I totally missed the fact you wrote postie, anyhow you need to chmod 777, open up your ftp client and find the uploads folder and right click and look for info or setting and select and it should allow you to change to 777 or 0777

5. valendesigns
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   find your tmp folder inside and change to 777 as well. If it doesn't exist create it and chmod it to 777.

6. bsieders
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   thanks for your help valendesigns..
   i have tried that before and it said permission denied, i also cannot delete the folder. Any way around this??

7. valendesigns
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   then you need to login to your server and delete it from your account center, cPanel or Plesk (whatever you have) and/or change the permissions. The folder is probably owned by root and your ftp can't delete it.

8. bsieders
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   ok i don't have access to the root so i will submit a ticket i guess, don't understand why the plugin created a folder it can't write to. Anyway muchas gracias, have a nice day

9. bsieders
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Nooooo...I managed to set the folder to 777 through a super fast technical support team but i still get "could not write to temp file: ''"!

   has anybody else out there had a similar problem or know any possible cause??

   Desperate balti

10. jamesk525
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    first possibility (not an expert) but...

    assuming you are on a "shared, hosted" web server... the admins probably have "locked down" a shared php.ini

    this means you don't have access to write to the "upload_tmp_dir" as set in php.ini

    if they are running segration on a single box, they might have to set a php.ini setting called "user_dir" for you and chmod it to 777.

    ask your tech support peeps if that might be the reason images aren't getting "moved" with the pop of the email.

    second possibility, the host's mail service has blocked images in messages unless you explicity "download" them using a message reader. so they are "missing" when WordPress "pops" the message. again ask the tech support peeps.

    if all else fails, ignore this post. :p

11. bsieders
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Hi jamesk525..

    Not going to ignore anything at the moment, thanks a lot for your post!

    I am able to upload images no problem in wordpress so I think that rules out possibility numero uno.

    If I check my inbox of the email account i set up i clearly see the image but that might be because i "explicitly download them." I will try using an email account on another server and see if thats the cause.

    If any other bright ideas pop3 into your head, let me know!

    cheers Balti

12. kbanse
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    I get the same thing.
    Mine doesn't even create a temp folder anywhere even with the settings at 777 on uploads.

    this is what I get:

    Email has following attachments:

    image jpeg

    primary= multipart, secondary = mixed
    primary= image, secondary = jpeg
    crap - could not write to temp file: ''

    Is $tmpFile supposed to be blank??

13. thefxman
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Hey there,

    I had an extremely frustrating time with the same issue as bsieders and kbanse. After narrowing it down a few lines in the postie-funtion.php I got stuck trying to come up with the solution (sadly I am not really any good at coding). Thankfully a little over a day after I started banging my head against the wall on this I checked the "other versions" section and gave the Development Version a try - low and behold, the issue was taken care of and everything works like a charm!

    My complements to Robert on making a very strong plug-in even stronger (and best of all working the kinks very quickly!) Thanks!

14. kbanse
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    I figured out my issue with the latest development version and I was close in my previous post.

    on line 1156 of postie-functions.php

    $tmpFile=tempnam(tempnam('TEMP', 'postie');

    change to:

    $tmpFile=tempnam('wp-content/uploads', 'postie');

    and all worked fine. Not sure if there is a better way to fix this though.

15. jristila
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    For some reason I needed to use full path to get it working, in my case it looks like:
    $tmpFile=tempnam('/home/users/dshells/ristil/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/postie', 'postie');
    If you do not have shell access, you can find the full path of your upload directory with your favourite FTP program as well. I made postie it's own directory in uploads, although it looks like there will be temp files only...

16. prathikraj
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Some hosting companies don't allow you to give 777 file permissions because it leads to server security issues. Do check with them.

17. Junglefrog
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    I was having exactly the same issues and changed the code to the string that kbanse suggested and it works like a charm! Fantastic! Thanks for solving my issue!

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