using mailto to send email with an attachment

Question

How can i send an email with an attachment  either local file or a file in the intranet  using outlook 2010    lt a href  mailto a gmail com subject my report amp body see attachment amp attachment c  myfolder myfile txt  gt    doesn t seem to work

User · Accepted Answer

Nope  this is not possible at all  There is no provision for it in the mailto  protocol  and it would be a gaping security hole if it were possible    The best idea to send a file  but have the client send the E-Mail that I can think of is    Have the user choose a file Upload the file to a server  Have the server return a random file name after upload Build a mailto  link that contains the URL to the uploaded file in the message body

User · Answer

what about this    lt FORM METHOD  post  ACTION  mailto jburns htmlgoodies com  ENCTYPE  multipart form-data  gt  Attachment   lt INPUT TYPE  file  NAME  attachedfile  MAXLENGTH 50 ALLOW  text     gt    lt input type  submit  name  submit  id  submit  value  Email   gt   lt  FORM gt

User · Answer

this is not possible in  mailto  function   please go with server side coding C   make sure open vs in administrative permission              Microsoft Office Interop Outlook Application oApp   new Microsoft Office Interop Outlook Application    Microsoft Office Interop Outlook MailItem oMsg    Microsoft Office Interop Outlook MailItem oApp CreateItem Microsoft Office Interop Outlook OlItemType olMailItem    oMsg Subject    emailSubject   oMsg BodyFormat   Microsoft Office Interop Outlook OlBodyFormat olFormatHTML  oMsg BCC    emailBcc   oMsg To    emailRecipient    string body    emailMessage    oMsg HTMLBody    body                 oMsg Attachments Add Convert ToString    my location virtual path myfile txt    Microsoft Office Interop Outlook OlAttachmentType olByValue  Type Missing  Type Missing    oMsg Display false     In order to displ

User · Answer

If you are using c  on the desktop  you can use SimpleMapi  That way it will be sent using the default mail client  and the user has the option of reviewing the message before sending  just like mailto   To use it you add the Simple-MAPI NET package  it s 13Kb   and run  var mapi   new SimpleMapi    mapi AddRecipient null  address  false   mapi Attach path     mapi Logon ParentForm Handle        not really necessary mapi Send subject  body  true

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