send_dbmail error. Attachment file is invalid

• davidandrews13

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  July 23, 2010 at 2:45 am

  #221635

  Hi,

  i'm trying to send an email to myself (internal ) and also to someone external of the company.

  I want to send an attachment and i've been looking at the following link but when i try it says

  'attachment file https://mysite.com/documents/2000/docname.pdf is invalid'

  i've copied and paste the file name into my browser and it definetely points to a document.

  declare @subjectline varchar(100) = 'test subject',

  @newbody varchar(100) = 'testbody',

  @myattachment varchar(max) = 'https://mysite.com/documents/2000/docname.pdf'

  ,@hc int

  --the below is a call to my stored procedure which in turn calls the send_dbmail stored procedure

  EXEC sp_Sys_SendMail_attachment 'myemailaddress@me.com',@subjectLine,@NewBody,

  @attachment = @myattachment,

  @RetVal = @hc OUTPUT

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190307.aspx

  can anyone see what i'm doing wrong?

  thanks

• July 23, 2010 at 4:21 am

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• Lowell

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  July 23, 2010 at 4:58 am

  #1197427

  i had not seen anyone try that before...getting a file from an url.

  I'm awful sure the retrieving of an attachment is a file operation only, and the file must exist on the server or on a network share the server can access...i don't think the sp_send_mail will download a remote file and then attach it.

  am i right?

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190307.aspx

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  [ @file_attachments= ] 'file_attachments'

  Is a semicolon-delimited list of file names to attach to the e-mail message. Files in the list must be specified as absolute paths. The attachments list is of type nvarchar(max). By default, Database Mail limits file attachments to 1 MB per file. For more information, see Database Mail Configuration Wizard.

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• davidandrews13

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  July 23, 2010 at 6:13 am

  #1197453

  I think you must be right.

  i ended up with the following:

  declare @subjectline varchar(100) = 'test subject',

  @newbody varchar(100) = 'testbody',

  @myattachment varchar(max) = '//server/folder/2000/docname.pdf'

  ,@hc int

  --the below is a call to my stored procedure which in turn calls the send_dbmail stored procedure

  EXEC sp_Sys_SendMail_attachment 'myemailaddress@me.com',@subjectLine,@NewBody,

  @attachment = @myattachment,

  @RetVal = @hc OUTPUT

  thanks 😎