Alternative to "mailTo" for opening client email?

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Hi All,

I used below code for opening Client Email through hyperlink, but if I add Attachment to this it would not work as I have googled and found out that Attachment does not work here. I need alternative to this for opening Client Email plus adding attachment to it. Please help guys.

C#

hyperlinkSendmail.NavigateUrl = "mailTo:" + EmailAddress + "?subject=" + Common.MAIL_SUBJECT + "?Attachment=" + FileRef;

Posted 27-Oct-14 1:02am

KaushalJB

Updated 27-Oct-14 1:12am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Oct-14 7:23am

What does not work? I don't see any attachment here... Only the word "attachment" :-).
—SA

KaushalJB 27-Oct-14 7:30am

The FileRef contains the path to the location of file...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Oct-14 8:13am

And?
—SA

KaushalJB 27-Oct-14 8:23am

And...Its not working :-)

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2014-10-27T01:59:00

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mailto:// is the only protocol that enables opening the client's local mail application...All the other approaches will need some additional code (plugin)...
To be precise the mailto:// protocol does not support attachments... (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt[^]), even some browsers do support it... It is also a big question how do you know what file - from the client computer - you want to attach?! How do you know the path?!
If you have a complex scenario of mail (and not some simple-text-to-address) it is better to create a specific mail form and send the mail from the server using System.Net.Mail[^]...

Posted 27-Oct-14 1:59am

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

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KaushalJB 27-Oct-14 8:27am

Thanx KEP for your response... I am developing it in SharePoint so would be long like : Download the file from List, again attaching manually and after that deleting the file automatically and then send it by SMTP. More preferable and was looking forward to opening Client Mail to send with attachment.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 27-Oct-14 8:50am

I do not see problems there - upload files, send them and delete them...

KaushalJB 28-Oct-14 1:58am

Yes KEP but the requirement is to open Client Mail with Attachment :)... so any options ?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 28-Oct-14 2:30am

You have to bring in a 3rd party - Java, ActiveX, Silverlight...

kedar001 · Answer 2 · 2014-10-27T01:12:00

Solution 1

this might help you..

Mail with Attachment[^]

Programmatically adding attachments to emails[^]

Posted 27-Oct-14 1:12am

kedar001

Updated 27-Oct-14 1:15am

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KaushalJB 27-Oct-14 8:02am

Thank you kedar. Infact I read all this :)