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How can I attach a file to an email from a url?

I'm sending an email using the cfmail tag, and trying to attach a PDF file from a URL:

<cfmail to="me@mydomain.com" from="you@yourdomain.com" subject="Subject" type="html">
   <cfmailparam file="http://myfilelocation/pdfFile.pdf">
   Body of the email
</cfmail>

However, this is not working. Without the cfmailparam tag, the email sends successfully. If I go to http://myfilelocation/pdffile.pdf, I see the PDF document that I'm trying to attach. Am I doing something wrong? How can I attach a PDF document to an email from a URL?

Solution

  • If your are send HTML email, why not just link to the PDF directly? This makes for smaller emails and gives you a chance to update the PDF even after it is sent out.