[thelist] CF: Email attachments on the fly

[Seth Bienek]

Ho Ol,

Why not do a <cffile action="write">, then attach the new file in the
<cfmail>, then do a <cffile action="delete">?

Never done this, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work.

Seth

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Seth Bienek
Independent ColdFusion Developer




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> Subject: [thelist] CF: Email attachments on the fly
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>
> Hi again,
>
> A day for questions.
>
> On a ColdFusion based site, I want to make an attachment to a
> message that
> is sent out by CFMAIL.  I've looked at the docs and can see
> plenty of ways
> to attach a file that actually exists on the disk, but all I
> want to do is
> generate the attachment on the fly.
>
> The attachment actually contains a tab-delimited version of
> the data being
> sent in the body.  You can see why generating it on the fly
> is much more
> preferable than generating a file, saving it to disk, and
> attaching that!
>
> I guess I could do it manually with CFMAILPARAM tag to set a
> MIME separator
> header, but ..  there's gotta be a cooler way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> </ol>
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