How to send mail with attachment using JS? [duplicate]

Question

Can anybody tell me how to send mail with an attachment using JavaScript?

Answer 1

You have two options to send email:

1. Use server side implementation to send email, access it in Javascript via XMLHttpRequest

2. Open the local email client from JavaScript and user can send email with pre-populated data.

    var link = "mailto:[email protected]"; 
    // In addition to this you can add subject or body as parameter . 
    // For e.g. 
    // "mailto:[email protected]?subject=test subject&body=my text"
    window.location.href = link;
   

Answer 2

JavaScript is a client-side language. It is not concerned with (indeed, cannot) send e-mail, with or without an attachment. You'll need something server-side for that.

JavaScript can merely invoke the server-side script to send the e-mail, by requesting it, say, over AJAX, but it is not JavaScript which sends the e-mail.

This is akin to people mistakenly writing things like "I have some JavaScript which is getting some info from my database." It is not - it is requesting a server-side script which is getting the info from the database.

Answer 3

With pure JavaScript, you can't send e-mails from the client. Remember, JavaScript is executed at the client (i. e. the user's browser).