Attach file to email using CDONTS

lamore · Oct 31, 2003

Hi All,
I hope someone can help me out. I have a form that is submitted online that is emailed using CDONTS. That part works great, now I need to be able to let user attach a file from their computer to the email. Obviolously I don't know ahead of time what the file name and location is so I need to add a browse button and browse their system and attach. Does anyone know an easy way to do this??

Thanks,
Lennny

lebisol · Oct 31, 2003

assign your "browse" button/field to polute the field and assign the value of that field to the object.....

http://www.aspfaqs.com/aspfaqs/ShowFAQ.asp?FAQID=13

All the best!

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lamore · Nov 1, 2003

What would the code in the email sending page look like?
What would I put in place of the question marks????

Below is my code:
Set objMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail&quot

objMail.To = "dblacks1@ford.com"
objMail.bcc = "lamore@ford.com"
objMail.From = "mof@ford.com"
objMail.Subject = "M.O.F. for Toolroom"
objMail.BodyFormat = 0
objMail.MailFormat = 0
objMail.AttachFile("???????????????&quot

objMail.Body = Recordset1.Fields.Item("requestedby&quot

.Value & " " & strMessage
objMail.Send
Set objMail = Nothing

Thanks,
Lenny

lebisol · Nov 3, 2003

form filed=[.....to whatever they browse to....]
eg.
objMail.AttachFile("d:\images\pic.gif&quot

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lebisol · Nov 3, 2003

take a look at the LINK above:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/SendAttachment.asp

this sample shows how to "Request.Form" to grab email addres....the same way u grab their "browsed to files/lcoation"
All the best!

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lamore · Nov 4, 2003

When I put the browse button in and browse to the file on my harddrive it doesn't work, it doesn't send anything. I must be doing something wrong....

lebisol · Nov 4, 2003

does your form field get populated?
try something in this direction
form field = "C:\file path"
.............
varMyIMAGE = Request.Form("name_of_the_FORM_field&quot

objMail.AttachFile("varMYImage&quot

...let me know if ur still having truble...perhaps I can make a smple file or something...anyhow
All the best!

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lamore · Nov 4, 2003

I did what you said and I get this message:

error '80004005'

Unspecified error

/Inetpub/materialorder/TMPcvgbwnub4s.asp, line 56
here is the code:
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<p>Send email with attachment:</p>
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1">
<table width="75%" border="0">
<tr>
<td>To: </td>
<td><input name="emailto" type="text" id="emailto2"></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From: </td>
<td><input name="emailfrom" type="text" id="emailfrom2"></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Message:</td>
<td><textarea name="emailbody" id="emailbody"></textarea></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>AttachFile:</td>
<td><input name="emailfile" type="file" id="emailfile"></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<p> <%

Dim varMyIMAGE
Set objMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail&quot

objMail.To = "lamore@ford.com"
objMail.bcc = "lamore@ford.com"
objMail.From = "mof@ford.com"
objMail.Subject = "Material Order Form"
objMail.BodyFormat = 0
objMail.MailFormat = 0
objMail.Body = "test"
varMyIMAGE = Request.Form("emailfile&quot

objMail.AttachFile("varMYImage&quot

objMail.Send
Set objMail = Nothing

Response.write("<i>Mail was Sent</i><p>&quot

%>
</p>
</body>
</html>

Getting pretty frustrated...
Thanks,
Lenny

lebisol · Nov 4, 2003

Perhpas I was not clear...this file has to be uploaded--sent-deleted.
Here is in depth example:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q266/4/52.ASP&NoWebContent=1

All the best!

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lamore · Nov 5, 2003

I did exactly as the Microsoft website directed and it didn't work. It works as long as I don't attach a file to it. So if I just put in email addresses it sends email...if I attach a file it goes back to the default.asp page which is the begining page...... Now I'm thinking that there is a component missing on the server, any more suggestions????? Getting desperate...

Thanks,
Lenny

lebisol · Nov 5, 2003

u should/need to have an ASPUpload or some other...upload component.
they way it works (this is all based on theory from Micro)
u 1st. upload a file to some loaction on your server eg.

"/emil/attachements/110503/image.gif"

and then user ServerMappath or a full path to pull the images
objMail.AttachFile("???????????????&quot

would be
objMail.AttachFile("

http://site.com/emil/attachements/110503/image.gif","myimage")

honestly, I have not tested my upload component so I have no code to pass along. try to test it and see if u can attach an image that is already on your server...if that works than your CDONTS are working ok and u need to find Upload component. ASPUpload is free....

http://www.aspupload.com/

All the best!

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