Press button, start native email program with attachment (located on webserver)

Question

I have tried all different versions of send email however I have not yet achieved the following:

Javascript (or HTML) button, when pressed, open native mail application with attachment. The attachment is located on the same server as the webpage ex.:

• web: www.something.com
• file: www.something.com/file.pdf

The solution should not include serverside scripting (ASP/PHP) I need a simple snippet to make this happen :) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

There is no standardized way to do this, but some email clients accept:

a href="mailto:[email protected]?attachment=<your filepath>"

where would have to be something like "C://Inetpub/wwwroot/myfile.pdf"

However, it will only attach something from the client's machine. You can't attach a file from the web.

Another option would be to just include a link to the file in the body of your email, or instructions to the user on how to email their attachment.