R help - Oct 2015 - Attaching a pdf file to an email generated with sendmailR?

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. My send line is simply:

sendmail(from,to,subject,body,control=list(smtpServer="mail.optonline.net"))

where body is something like this:

body <- list("Here's your stupid
file",mime_part(x="P:/partofpath/
thefile.pdf",name="file.pdf"))

Any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks,

Mike

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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 = "smtp.XXXXX", port = XXXXX, user.name =
"XXXXX",
passwd = "XXXXX", ssl = XXXXX)

2015-10-08 18:49 GMT+02:00 Michael Ashton <m.ashton at
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. My send line is simply:
>
>
sendmail(from,to,subject,body,control=list(smtpServer="mail.optonline.net
> "))
>
> where body is something like this:
>
> body <- list("Here's your stupid
file",mime_part(x="P:/partofpath/
> thefile.pdf",name="file.pdf"))
>
> Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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> This email and any attachments are confidential and in...{{dropped:13}}

No particular reason for sendmailR...I will try mailR and thanks!



On Oct 8, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Frans Marcelissen <fransiepansiekevertje at
gmail.com<mailto:fransiepansiekevertje at 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.ashton at
enduringinvestments.com<mailto:m.ashton at 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. My send line is simply:

sendmail(from,to,subject,body,control=list(smtpServer="mail.optonline.net<http://mail.optonline.net>"))

where body is something like this:

body <- list("Here's your stupid
file",mime_part(x="P:/partofpath/
thefile.pdf",name="file.pdf"))

Any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks,

Mike

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