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
• file: www.something/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.

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.
• file: www.something./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.

• javascript
• email
• button
• webserver
• attachment

• This is not possible, you have to send a email from a server which can attach it. – Niels Commented Dec 28, 2011 at 15:44

2 Answers 2

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.

This might not be what you're looking for, but you can send arguments to native e-mail client using the "mailto:" reference.

For example, you can set the default subject with:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=plaint">

see more at: http://msdn.microsoft./en-us/library/aa767737%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

so you can send the link to the attachment with

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?body=the attached file is at this link: %link%">