I seem to be able to get sendmailR to work with a text file, and maybe html is the same way...I tried this with a Pdf file and it didn't seem to work. But I will try again to be sure. Thanks for the suggestion.
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 7:55 AM, Bos, Roger <roger....@rothschild.com> wrote: > > Michael, > > I use sendmailR to attached a file to an email and it does work. I remember > there was something non-intuitive when I was figuring it out. I use both the > attachPath and the attachName. The attachPath has the full path including > the filename and the attachName just has the filename. I don't why it wants > the filename in both parameters, but it works for me. > > emailR(to = "some...@email.com", subject = "Morning Notes", msg = msg, > attachPath = newwd %+% fnameNotes, attachName = fnameNotes) > >> fnameNotes > [1] "morningNotes_20151009.html" >> newwd %+% fnameNotes > [1] > "//rinnycs0051/research/R_HOME_Research/Markdown/morningNotes/morningNotes_20151009.html" >> fnameNotes > [1] "morningNotes_20151009.html" > > Thanks, > > Roger > > > > > > > > *************************************************************** > This message and any attachments are for the intended recipient's use only. > This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged > information. 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You must > not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, > print or copy any part of this message or any attachments if you are not > the intended recipient. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Ashton > Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 5:24 PM > To: Frans Marcelissen > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Attaching a pdf file to an email generated with sendmailR? > > No particular reason for sendmailR...I will try mailR and thanks! > > > > On Oct 8, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Frans Marcelissen > <fransiepansiekever...@gmail.com<mailto:fransiepansiekever...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > Hi Michael, > I don't know whether there is a particulal reason for using sendmailR, but I > use mailR for this without any problem. > mailR::send.mail(from, to, subject = "", body = "", encoding = "iso-8859-1", > html = FALSE, inline = FALSE, smtp = list(), authenticate = FALSE, > send = TRUE, attach.files = NULL, debug = FALSE, ...) > > If you use an external smtp server, enter login name and password in > parameter smtp as follows: > smtp = list(host.name<http://host.name> = "smtp.XXXXX", port = XXXXX, > user.name<http://user.name> = "XXXXX", passwd = "XXXXX", ssl = XXXXX) > > 2015-10-08 18:49 GMT+02:00 Michael Ashton > <m.ash...@enduringinvestments.com<mailto:m.ash...@enduringinvestments.com>>: > For some time I have been using sendmailR to generate a simple message when a > report was done running. > > Recently, I started adding a couple of pertinent statistics in the body of > the email. > > Now, I've finally decided that what the heck, I ought to simply attach the > report itself to the email. The report is generated as a pdf file. > > I can't seem to get this to work in any simple way with mime_part; if I > specify a path to the file it simply assumes that "P:/blablabla/thefile.pdf" > is a message I want to put in a text file attachment. > > I assume I am doing something incorrectly and likely something simple. But > maybe there is a clever trick I am missing. 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