Set Email Attachment name in C#

Question

I add an attachment like this:

System.Net.Mail.Attachment attachment = new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(AttachmentPath);   
msg.Attachments.Add(attachment);

But I want to make it attach as a different name, the actual file name is very long and confusing I would like it to attach as "file.txt", is there an easy way to do this without having to make a copy of the file?

Kjellski · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-29 13:33:09Z

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How about:

System.Net.Mail.Attachment attachment = new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(attachmentPath);
attachment.Name = "file.txt";  // set name here
msg.Attachments.Add(attachment);

edited Jan 29, 2014 at 13:33

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answered Aug 22, 2011 at 14:42

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MarkHoward02 Over a year ago

This is what worked for me: attachment.ContentDisposition.FileName = "file.txt";

John Oxley · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-22 14:44:26Z

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You need to load the attachment from a stream and then you can give it a name and a media type.

var fs = new FileStream("attachmentPath", FileMode.Open);
var attachment = new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(fs, "MyAttachmentName.txt", "text/text");

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 14:44

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Kazeem Quadri · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-23 10:46:39Z

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var attachment = new Attachment(path){
    Name = "File Name"
};
msg.Attachments.Add(attachment);

So what I did was basically to create the attachment and add the name in the initialization.

answered Mar 23, 2022 at 10:46

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