Error when trying to send attachments to messages with no body text

[mdesjardins]

Here's the gist of the problem - I'm using ActionMailer, and I'm trying to send an e-mail for which there is no e-mail view... thus there's no body text. I am trying to include an attachment. When I try to do this, I get the following error:

AWS::SES::ResponseError: InvalidParameterValueMissing start boundary

There's an easy workaround (if you ended up here via google!) - I just made empty views and all went well, but the somewhat cryptic error message had me scratching my head for a bit.

BTW - sending attachments w/out body text worked fine without the workaround before I started using SES (i.e., with standard SMTP ActionMailer).

I looked briefly into fixing this myself, but I wasn't sure the best way to do it. :( Maybe setting default blank message around line 100 of lib/aws/ses/send_email.rb ? That seemed a bit hokey, though. :S

[forste]

having the same problem using the java com.amazonaws.services.simpleemail package and this code: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=30251

[mdesjardins]

So maybe the issue is more of an SES-specific thing than something in this gem.

The "right" thing to do might just be to throw a more specific exception?

[piclez]

Is this pull request will be applied? I had this issue recently and this could have saved me couple hours ;) Thanks.

[parkr]

I had the same issue just now. :)

[rilian]

would be great to add some documentation about adding attachment. when i add attachment it actually removes contents of the :body param, and then the gem returns this message Attachment provided without message body ... so i had to assign :body again to be able to send email with body and attachment at the same time