RE: [flexcoders] Tricky one...adding attachments to an email generated from the app
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: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Williams Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:12 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 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.
Re: [flexcoders] Tricky one...adding attachments to an email generated from the app
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:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Adrian Williams *Sent:* Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:12 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *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],
Re: [flexcoders] Tricky one...adding attachments to an email generated from the app
The Base64 Idea is pretty helpfull in other situations, thanks Ryan. On 4-Dec-08, at 7:00 PM, Fotis Chatzinikos wrote: 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: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Williams Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:12 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 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],
RE: [flexcoders] Tricky one...adding attachments to an email generated from the app
I've done this in my Flex app. 1) Use the FileReferences component to allow the user to select one of more files 2) Send the file to the back end...remember FileReferences will make one POST requets for every file the user selected 3) With the upload request, send the total number of files the user selected and then cache its file as it arrives 4) once u have received all the files (based on the total number), create and send your email Dimitrios Gianninas RIA Developer Team Lead Optimal Payments Inc. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Williams Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:12 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 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 -- WARNING --- This electronic message and its attachments may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information, which is solely for the use of the intended recipient. No privilege or other rights are waived by any unintended transmission or unauthorized retransmission of this message. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if you have received it in error, you should immediately stop reading this message and delete it and all attachments from your system. The reading, distribution, copying or other use of this message or its attachments by unintended recipients is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender. AVIS IMPORTANT -- Ce message électronique et ses pièces jointes peuvent contenir des renseignements confidentiels, exclusifs ou légalement privilégiés destinés au seul usage du destinataire visé. L'expéditeur original ne renonce à aucun privilège ou à aucun autre droit si le présent message a été transmis involontairement ou s'il est retransmis sans son autorisation. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire visé du présent message ou si vous l'avez reçu par erreur, veuillez cesser immédiatement de le lire et le supprimer, ainsi que toutes ses pièces jointes, de votre système. La lecture, la distribution, la copie ou tout autre usage du présent message ou de ses pièces jointes par des personnes autres que le destinataire visé ne sont pas autorisés et pourraient être illégaux. Si vous avez reçu ce courrier électronique par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur.
