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Hi Matt,

Attachments via RBE are currently not supported.

I can work on this for the next milestone if this is deemed important.

Hi Ray,

I do think it would be a cool feature to add. Let's add it to the next milestone if you feel like it is doable.

Great -- thank you, Ray

This feature is ready to test on the development server.

To test:
1. Post a reply to a group forum thread to trigger an email notification.
2. Reply to that email from your email client and add an attachment.
3. If all goes well, you should see the attachments in the group forum thread as well as in group emails to anyone subscribed to the group.

I've tested with various image files and a PDF and this appears to be working.

Some caveats:
- We abide by the filesize restriction settings of the GD bbPress Attachments plugin. On the dev server, the max filesize is 3MB.
- We abide by the maximum number of attachments you can upload setting from GD bbPress Attachments. On the dev server, this is 4.
- You should be able to upload any file that you can upload into the WordPress Media library.
- Currently, no feedback email is sent back to the author if the attachment filesize is too big. This should probably be added, but I haven't done so yet.

Thanks for testing, Steve.

I tested with the same .docx file and it works for me. However, I used the Thunderbird email client for attaching. It looks like you are using GMail web. I'll do some further testing on GMail web to see if I can duplicate the problem.

I used my Airmail email client. I will try with other email clients to see if I get different results.

At this moment, none of my RBE's from Outlook are going through--even those with no attachment.

Hi Steve,

Glad to hear that the attachment works.

About the extraneous info, this is expected behavior and isn't due to the new attachment code. The extraneous info is due to the text just before the "--- Reply ABOVE THIS LINE to add a comment ---" line when you make a reply. This is created by certain email clients.

I've made some attempts at stripping this text in the past, but it's hard to accommodate for all email clients. In this case, the text block beginning with "From" and ending with the email's subject line is hard to do a match for.

I am getting very inconsistent results testing this. More details later.

I have gotten this to work with several clients, but it consistently fails when using Airmail desktop client with Exchange served email messages. The text of the reply posts successfully to the forum, but the attachment is lost. The Airmail client does work with Gmail served messages.