Does the mailto: in anchor tag actually support attachments

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Is it possible to have attachments to be specified in the mailto: tag in HTML?

< a href="test@test.com?body=somebody&subject=someSubject">my link < /a>

If yes, how do I specify an attachment?

Posted 24-Oct-13 6:31am

srinvas

Updated 24-Oct-13 6:37am

Richard C Bishop

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Ranjan.D 24-Oct-13 12:42pm

Did you tried anything so far ?

http://forums.devshed.com/beginner-programming-16/using-mailto-with-an-attachment-66699.html[^]

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2013-10-24T10:16:00

Solution 1

Yes. Use this format: &attachment="\\server\myfolder\myfile.txt"

Note: I would still recommend using code if you can. Obviously, the user will have to have access to the file for this to work.

Posted 24-Oct-13 10:16am

ZurdoDev