Attachments incoming mail missing

Anvil Q&A
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Hi all, I’m trying to store the attachments (xlsx and csv) attached to incoming mails using the example provided at Anvil Docs | Sending and Receiving.

This is the code I’m using:

@anvil.email.handle_message
def handle_incoming_emails(msg):

  msg_row = app_tables.received_messages.add_row(
              from_addr=msg.envelope.from_address, 
              to=msg.envelope.recipient,
              text=msg.text, 
              html=msg.html
            )

  for a in msg.attachments:
    
    app_tables.attachments.add_row(
      message=msg_row, 
      attachment=a
    )

Somehow msg.attachments is empty.

I’ve also tried to use inline_attachments using this code:

  for a in msg.inline_attachments:
    
    app_tables.attachments.add_row(
      message=msg_row, 
      attachment=a
    )

The result of this is an error in the logs:

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The type and contents of “a” using print(type(a)):

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To be sure I also sent the mail to another mail address and the file was attached to the email.

Does anyone have an idea why the attachments are not there?

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Looking at the API docs, it looks like inline_attachments works a little differently from attachments:

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This should work:

for header, a in msg.inline_attachments.items():
    app_tables.attachments.add_row(
      message=msg_row,
      attachment=a
    )
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Thanks Tim, that solved the problem.

I’ll pay more attention to the docs next time.

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