Sending e-mail with ASP.NET MVC3 with attachment

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I searched everywhere, but without finding any solution. The problem is: I'm trying to send e-mails with attachments from an ASP.NET MVC3 application. The problem is: the attachment is (or should be) a pdf file created with iTextSharp. I already have a method in a Controller that returns an ActionResult, and this method produces a pdf response. The problem is: how can I get teh file from this ActionResult?

this is not specific to MVC. wrap the pdf generation code in a method and use that to get the attachment. There are a lot of example to send emails in C# — Shyju
– Shyju, Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 20:54

Shyju · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-09 21:24:51Z

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Move your code which generates the PDF fike stream to a method which you can Re Use in many places and use that when creating the attachment

public Byte[] GetGeneratedPDF(string someParameter)
{
   //Do your magic to create the PDF and return the byte array

}

Now you can call this method to create the Attachement

MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(GetGeneratedPDF("hi"));
Attachment att1= new Attachment(stream, "stack123.pdf");
msg.Attachments.Add(att1);

answered Aug 9, 2012 at 21:24

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philipproplesch · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-09 20:59:51Z

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Just take the same logic that you use inside your "PDF generation action method" and add the Stream (or whatever iTextSharp returns) as an attatchment to your mail:

message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(stream, "name", "mimeType"));

answered Aug 9, 2012 at 20:59

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Pierpaolo Paris Over a year ago

I am trying this solution, but "extracting" a stream from an ActionResult object seems to be not possible.

philipproplesch Over a year ago

No, not from the ActionResult but from the PDF generator. Have a look at Shyju's answer, this should make it clear.

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