Send attachments with cfmail???

[Guest]

Greetings!
I'm in a pickle...I need to send out information to our list. It's long. I'd rather send a letter with CFMAIL and send the rest as a PDF attachment, but I don't know the coding and settings for attachments! :D

Help?
Many thanks!!!

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

Check out the documentation for <cfmailparam ...> it gives a couple of
examples.


<h3>cfmailparam Examples</h3>
<p>This view-only example uses cfmailparam to 1) add header to a message
and 2) attach files and 3) to return a receipt to the sender.</p>

<cfmail from = "peter@domain.com" To = "paul@domain.com" Subject = "See
Important Attachments and Reply">
<cfmailparam name = "Importance" value = "High">
Please review the new logo. Tell us what you think.
<cfmailparam file = "c:\work\readme.txt" type="text/plain">
<cfmailparam file = "c:\work\logo.gif" type="image/gif">
<cfmailparam name="Disposition-Notification-To" value="peter@domain.com">
</cfmail>

<p>This view-only example displays an image in the body of
an HTML message.</p>

<cfmail type="HTML"
to = "#form.mailto#"
from = "#form.mailFrom#"
subject = "Sample inline image">
<cfmailparam file="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\web.gif"
disposition="inline"
contentID="image1">
<P>There should be an image here</p>
<img src="cid:image1">
<p> After the picture</p>
</cfmail>

[Guest]

Greetings and thanks - I think maybe I should clarify what I'm doing. I think your reply was close to what I need, but I'm a bit confused - sorry!

I am sending a newsletter-type HTML email to our subscriber list (ourquery), and would like to ADD an attachment to that for viewing, specifically, a PDF for best viewability/printing. Here's the code we usually use to send out the newsletter:

<CFMAIL
TO="#ourquery.Email#"
FROM="our reply email"
TYPE="HTML"
QUERY="ourquery"
SERVER="scriptmail.our isp.net"
SUBJECT="our subject line here">
(HTML content goes here)
</CFMAIL>

So, within this scenario, where would I add the attachment (path?) and would it be the CFMAILPARAM code as you reccomend or a MIMEATTACH= CODE, or ???

MANY THANKS!!!

[Newsgroup_User]

I am sending a newsletter-type HTML email to our subscriber list
(ourquery), and would like to ADD an attachment to that for viewing,
specifically, a PDF for best viewability/printing. Here's the code we
usually use to send out the newsletter:


That is what was shown in the first example, note the <cfmail ...>
wrapping the mail message and the two attached files, readme.txt and
logo.gif. This example also shows adding a couple of headers to the
mail message.

<cfmail from = "peter@domain.com" To = "paul@domain.com" Subject = "See
Important Attachments and Reply">

<cfmailparam name = "Importance" value = "High">

Please review the new logo. Tell us what you think.

<!--- An Attached File ---><cfmailparam file = "c:\work\readme.txt"
type="text/plain">
<!--- An Attached File ---><cfmailparam file = "c:\work\logo.gif"
type="image/gif">

<cfmailparam name="Disposition-Notification-To"
value="peter@domain.com">
</cfmail>

[Guest]

Many thanks again for your assistance!

I designated your original reply as the answer, as that is what worked for me. Thank you also for your patience with me and assisting me in working this out. I consulted with my ISP for the correct path to the file and the code worked great!

Once again, many thanks!

JL

[iKnowKungFoo]

Sending multiple attachments with CFMAIL

[Guest]

Mny thanks...but I get an error message:

Security: The requested template has been denied access to (filename).pdf.
The following is the internal exception message: access denied (java.io.FilePermission CONF06REGISTRATIONFORM.pdf read)

with (filename) my change in the code for this posting.

Is there something I'm missing?
This is not a form/download of an attachment, but a newsletter we would send out to a list via a query of that list with an attachment.

many thanks...

[Newsgroup_User]

The ColdFusion service user (default localSystem) must have permission
to do anything with the file system or other resource. If the
attachment was a local file on the server I would expect it to under the
default permissions of the default localSystem user. But if any of the
assumptions are incorrect it could cause a problem.

[Guest]

"The ColdFusion service user (default localSystem) must have permission
to do anything with the file system or other resource. If the
attachment was a local file on the server I would expect it to under the
default permissions of the default localSystem user. But if any of the
assumptions are incorrect it could cause a problem."

Q: when you say 'local file' and 'localsystem' user, are you referring to the server local to the file being run (e.g. our ISP server)? I'm just wondering if/how I might need to adjust the c:\ ...path to 'retrieve' the file I am trying to attach.

Many, many thanks!