Send email with attachment

[Derek Bump]

Bill,

What you could do is create the body of the email and encode the
attachment directly into the message via content types (I believe it's
called MIME).  To see what I mean, view the source of an email message
with an attachment.

I am not sure though if *all* email programs would honor the embedded
code when it's passed via the mailto:, and would instead just display it
as inline text as opposed to an attachment.  This may create confusion
for some users.

There is one other consideration that I hope you have not ignored, and
that is that a LOT of people don't use traditional email programs.  They
use web based email like Hotmail or Yahoo Mail.  I had implemented a
mailto: script in one of my programs, only to replace it later on with a
PHP script on my server that would send the email regardless of what
type of email they used (or if they even had email at all).

I hope that helps you in your efforts.  If you're interested in a copy
of the PHP script, email me off-list and I'll send you a copy.


Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com


Bill Vlahos wrote:
> The following command works great for opening a new email message and
> putting the address(s) in it. What I would like to also do is add a
> specific attachment to the email as well but I don't see a parameter for
> doing that. This would be for Mac and Windows now and Linux when Rev 2.9
> comes out.
> 
> revGoURL "mailto:guido at sales.example.com"
> 
> I know there are ways to send email directly from Rev apps but in this
> case I would like to leverage the email program the user already has and
> not require setting up SMTP parameters.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill Vlahos
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