Sending existing BDS documents as email attachments

I have documents stored in BDS which I wish to send as email attachments. There is a lot of very helpful material around sending emails but it all seems to relate to sending the contents of an internal table as an excel attachment, for example. There is much detail on the methods to be called to convert the data from one format to another and then add it as an attachment.
I want to be able to attach an existing document(it could be any type of document but in my case it is a word document) to an email and send it to an email address. This seems a very basic requirement and I'm a bit puzzled that my sdn searches have not come up with the goods.
I was expecting there to be a CL_BDS(or CL_BDS_DOCUMENT_SET) method to do this but I can't find one. I have ended up using an Outlook OLE2 approach and have got it working, see Max Bianchi's contribution within the following thread for a model(thank's Max):
How to send e-mail from Report to MS-outlook
This is good but restricts me to Outlook and  would prefer to have everything within SAP with no outside dependencies. i.e. if this site changes from using Outlook to another mail application the program will stop working.
Is there another way I can construct emails and attach existing files to them without reading the documents in, reformatting them etc??
I am closing this thread as there have been no responses. It does not seem that there is a way to attach existing documents within SAP. The options are to use an OLE2 approach which has the advantage of dealing with the original document  but restricts the solution to the OLE2 object (in this case Outlook) or to read the document to be attached into an internal table via CL_BDS methods, reformat it suitably and send an email via CL_DOCUMENT_BCS methods.

I have documents stored in BDS which I wish to send as email attachments. There is a lot of very helpful material around sending emails but it all seems to relate to sending the contents of an internal table as an excel attachment, for example. There is much detail on the methods to be called to convert the data from one format to another and then add it as an attachment.
I want to be able to attach an existing document(it could be any type of document but in my case it is a word document) to an email and send it to an email address. This seems a very basic requirement and I'm a bit puzzled that my sdn searches have not come up with the goods.
I was expecting there to be a CL_BDS(or CL_BDS_DOCUMENT_SET) method to do this but I can't find one. I have ended up using an Outlook OLE2 approach and have got it working, see Max Bianchi's contribution within the following thread for a model(thank's Max):
How to send e-mail from Report to MS-outlook
This is good but restricts me to Outlook and  would prefer to have everything within SAP with no outside dependencies. i.e. if this site changes from using Outlook to another mail application the program will stop working.
Is there another way I can construct emails and attach existing files to them without reading the documents in, reformatting them etc??
I am closing this thread as there have been no responses. It does not seem that there is a way to attach existing documents within SAP. The options are to use an OLE2 approach which has the advantage of dealing with the original document  but restricts the solution to the OLE2 object (in this case Outlook) or to read the document to be attached into an internal table via CL_BDS methods, reformat it suitably and send an email via CL_DOCUMENT_BCS methods.

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