Send email with attachment

[Ana]

Hi,

I need to send an email with attachment, but the attachment is in the
company website. What I'm doing is:

thumbPath = "Folder/Image.jpg"
thumbPath = "www.companywebsite.com/" & thumbPath
Dim attachment As New MailAttachment(thumbPath)

However, the following error message is fired: Invalid mail attachment
'www.companywebsite.com/Folder/Image.jpg'

I typed the thumbPath in the browser and the Image is found in the
website. How to attach this image in my email?

Thanks in advance,

Ana

[Arsalan Tamiz]

File must be physically attached with email, I think this type of attachment is NOT possible.

You can send email in HTML format and put img tag in there with src = that particular image address. However due to security issues, the end user may NOT able to see images unless he/she allows that.

[mateen...@gmail.com]

hi,

Give the complete path : http://www.websitename/Folder/image.jpg
instead of the relative path

Regards
Mateen

[InfRes]

You have a few options.

1. As above, one option is to use a complete path, this may error
if there is a proxy server between your app and the website.

2. Another option is to download the file to your local machine,
then just check the header to see has it changed, & download it again
if it has...
this way you always have a local file to attach to your email
it may fail with a proxy error as above

3. Yet another option (depending on where your app is running in
relation to the website)
would be to use UNC paths:

\\yourwebserver\your\file\path

This will only be applicable if your website & application are running
in the same network.
you're app will also need permissions to access the network.

Hope this helps

Steve

[Łukasz Kuryło]

>    thumbPath = "Folder/Image.jpg"
>    thumbPath = "www.companywebsite.com/" & thumbPath
>    Dim attachment As New MailAttachment(thumbPath)
>
> However, the following error message is fired: Invalid mail attachment
> 'www.companywebsite.com/Folder/Image.jpg'

Download the file first and then add him to the mail
http://lukaszkurylo.com/archive/2009/10/05/asp.net-asp.net-mvc-snippets.aspx#1

[Ana]

My posted was wrong; in my original code I use the complete path:
http://www.companywebsite.com/Folder/Image.jpg
The error message is fired even with the complete path.

About downloading the image, I don't believe this is the est option
for me. In my application, the user has the option to send 0..n emails
and each one of these email may contain a different Image. Suppose we
have 100 emails to be sent and 70 different Images. This means I would
have to download 70 images from the Company Website and I would have
to do this in the client machine. I don't think this would be the best
solution.

Any other suggestions?

Ana

On Dec 18, 11:53 pm, "veryjo...@yahoo.com" <mateenkapa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Ana]

Arsalan, I did what you suggested and worked great! Thanks a lot!

On Dec 18, 9:21 pm, Arsalan Tamiz <sallus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> File must be physically attached with email, I think this type of attachment
> is NOT possible.
>
> You can send email in HTML format and put img tag in there with src = that
> particular image address. However due to security issues, the end user may
> NOT able to see images unless he/she allows that.
>