Ramya Niranjan wrote:
> I am trying to use the mail task to send a particular network share
> link into a RTF file so that users could click on this link to
> naviagte to the correct location. But the out always goes as a normal
> text file. This is what I am trying:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <project name="sample" default="default">
> <target name="default">
> <property name="netshare" value="\\hostname\sharename\foldername"
> <file://%5C%5Chostname%5Csharename%5Cfoldername%22>/>
> <echo message="${netshare}" file=".\usedfolder.rtf"/>
> <mail mailhost="myhost"
> format="Html"
> from="[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> to="[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>">
> <files>
> <include name="*.\userfolder.rtf">
> </files>
> </target>
> </project>
>
You're doing this backwards, and hence it's not working.
What you're doing is telling NAnt that the file format is HTML, but then
you're writing plain text into that file. So it gets sent out as
ordinary text in an HTML mail message, with no <a> tag, and hence won't
be a live link. Setting the format to HTML doesn't convert a plain text
file into HTML; it just sets the MIME type for the email. Likewise,
putting ".rtf" at the end of a file name doesn't convert the content
into rich text, it just makes MS Windows think that that's what's in the
file.
The easy way to do this is to let the mail client do all the work. Just
set the format to be text, and send it out. Depending upon the client,
you may need to add the protocol, which means rewriting the network
share as "file:///hostname/sharename/foldername" or some such thing, but
it can be made to work (though perhaps not for multiple clients
simultaneously).
If that's not good enough, then write out the full HTML for the message,
e.g. <html><head></head><body><a href="\\hostname\sharename\foldername">
<file://%5C%5Chostname%5Csharename%5Cfoldername%22>\\hostname\sharename\foldername
<a></body></html>. <file://%5C%5Chostname%5Csharename%5Cfoldername%22>
You could even go as far as having a static body in XHTML, and just
using NAnt's <xmlpoke> task to insert the values that change. But once
you go that far, you may discover you're better off just serving the
files off a web server. UNC names and network shares, while easy to
access, are a pain to manipulate. (And reporting results via a server
leads down the path to CC.Net).
Gary
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