[html] using mailto to send email with an attachment

How can i send an email with an attachment (either local file or a file in the intranet) using outlook 2010?

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=my report&body=see attachment&attachment=c:\myfolder\myfile.txt">

doesn't seem to work.

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The answer is


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

what about this

<FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="mailto:[email protected]" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
Attachment: <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="attachedfile" MAXLENGTH=50 ALLOW="text/*" >
 <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Email"/>
</FORM>

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);