Upload the files to the server, get some unique ids back, send the mail text and the ids back to the server, prepare and send the mail attaching the files the ids descrinbe and remember to delete the files ;-)
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Ryan Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Perhaps you could gather the attachments in flex, add a parameter to > your webservice for them, base64 encode them for transfer via that > parameter, then base64 decode them back to binary files on the server when > sending the email? Note, base64 encoding binary data increases its size > roughly 30% for the transfer to the server. Not sure if bandwidth is an > issue in your scenario. > > > > HTH, > > Ryan > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Adrian Williams > *Sent:* Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:12 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Tricky one...adding attachments to an email > generated from the app > > > > Hi guys, > > And yet another one that I haven't seen... > > Part of our app allows a user to send an email to one or more folks in > their view. We simply provide a state that has a simple email form they > fill out and then we pass that information back through our web service > (.NET) that actually has the procedure to send the email. > > What I need to be able to do is allow the user to add attachments to > the email they want to send out. Is there any way to do this and is there a > better method to the email solution? We briefly toyed with the idea of just > creating the hyperlink to use their own email client, but a user can > literally send a bulk email to several thousand people and a hyperlink would > die a slow, miserable death trying to handle that. > > Thanks! > Adrian > > This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in > error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. > > -- Fotis Chatzinikos, Ph.D. Founder, Phinnovation [EMAIL PROTECTED],
