Re: Attachment by Email

I'm pretty sure there isn't a way to do this - at least not in a varied environment. There's probably some hidden MS API to let you write a VBS to do this, but not in an average internet setting. I'd looked into this some time ago (97) and there was definitely nothing I could find then to do that - I say 'pretty sure' these days because I think someone somewhere would have started doing it as a virus by now (automatically attach a password file, or autoexec.bat or something) when you open an email. Another way to do this is to have PHP generate and the email itself, creating the attachment for whatever file people needed (if the files are coming from the main server). If the attached files are to come from the local drives of the users, perhaps create a small step by step process to walk them thru a file upload and then send that file as an attachment. HTH Jeremy MacIver wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry if this is a simple question but i'm stuck! > > I am designing the company intranet - on one page we have a search which > lists drawings from a directory on a unix box - the users can then click on > the drawings which open up in a new browser window with a plugin. I thought > i had done quite well to get this far! > > They have now decided that they need to email these drawings at the click of > a button. > > What I need is a way of opening up their client email program and > automatically attaching the relevant file to the email, is this possible? > > hope that made sense, > > Thanks in advance > > Jeremy > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961