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Gift Peddie

Posted Monday, November 22, 2010 8:02 AM

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clement.degroote (11/22/2010)

Hello.
Sorry, but I don't understand. Could you tell me more ?

Sure so instead of

Imports System.Net 
Imports System.Net.Mail

use the code below instead

Imports System.Net 
Imports System.Net.Mail
Imports System.IO

The later code lets you access the file system or the streams like memory stream which is one of the child classes of the Base Class TextWriter.

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clement.degroote

Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:51 AM

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we find issue to our problem. we add content-disposition option on the attachment file property.
See the code below :
If Not strAttachments.Equals(String.Empty) Then
Dim strFile As String
Dim strAttach() As String = strAttachments.Split(";")
For Each strFile In strAttach
Dim Data As Net.Mail.Attachment = New Net.Mail.Attachment(strfile.trim())
Dim Disposition As Net.Mime.ContentDisposition = Data.ContentDisposition
Disposition.CreationDate = System.IO.File.GetCreationTime(strfile.trim())
Disposition.ModificationDate = System.IO.File.GetLastWriteTime(strfile.trim())
Disposition.ReadDate = System.IO.File.GetLastAccessTime(strfile.trim())
Mailmsg.Attachments.Add(Data)
Next
End If
It works well; so thanks a lot to everyone for help.
Very good article and very useful for us.
king regards

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Aditya A

Posted Monday, December 20, 2010 2:08 AM

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I've tried the mail send as described here. Its working great except for the part where line breaks/carriage returns are removed from the body of the message. The way I've tried it so far is the p_SendEmail procedure is called via my procedure where the body of the message is concatenated(formatted with line breaks). The mail and attachments are recieved but the line breaks generated by my procedure gets removed.
This is how I have generated the linebreaks
SET @MSG ='Dear All,'
SET @MSG=@MSG+CHAR(13)+'Executive : ' +@EXECUTIVE
SET @MSG=@MSG+CHAR(13)
SET @MSG=@MSG+CHAR(13)+'Start Date : ' +CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),@START_DATE,106)
SET @MSG=@MSG+CHAR(13)
SET @MSG=@MSG+CHAR(13)+'End Date : ' +CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),@END_DATE,106)

Finally I pass @MSG as the body of the mail. When the mail is received all the line breaks/carriage returns are absent. Any idea on what's going wrong? The line breaks work properly when I use SQL Db mail.

--Replaced CHAR(13) with < /br>. Works fine

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Aditya A

Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:28 PM

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Any tips on how to make this work with an Open SMTP Server?

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jonnylewis

Posted Monday, February 20, 2012 12:17 PM

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Do you think would be an answer for the problem (in sql 2008) where, using database mail to send email and attachments when logged on to sql with sql authentication, won't allow sending the attachment unless one has sysadmin permission?

Here is the books online discussion:
Database Mail uses the Microsoft Windows security context of the current user to control access to files. Therefore, users who are authenticated with SQL Server Authentication cannot attach files using @file_attachments. Windows does not allow SQL Server to provide credentials from a remote computer to another remote computer. Therefore, Database Mail may not be able to attach files from a network share in cases where the command is run from a computer other than the computer that SQL Server runs on.

Have been googling this for days. No one seems to have solution for this problem other than to use windows authentication or give user greater permission, neither of which, is desirable. thanks for any thoughts on this.

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Posted Monday, February 20, 2012 1:35 PM

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Actually, I wrote an enhanced version that allows for dynamic SMTP servers as well as logging to a SQL table. I'll update the article or send in a new one; should be able to have it out within the next week or so.

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Gift Peddie

Posted Monday, February 20, 2012 1:53 PM

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Therefore, users who are authenticated with SQL Server Authentication cannot attach files using @file_attachments. Windows does not allow SQL Server to provide credentials from a remote computer to another remote computer

I don’t think it is related because @file_attachment is local variable in SQL Server not related to system.net used for Microsoft SMTP mail. Please check the link below for the system stored procedure that defines attachment file size and related issues, the reason you can use Default for the connection properties but you still need to talk to system admin and Exchange admin.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191442.aspx

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J-LK

Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:30 AM

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Brilliantly simple stuff, many thanks!

This solved an age-old problem for us, and we are highly indebted to people like you that take the time to share your knowledge.

Once again, thanks! BigGrin

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