Attaching a pdf document while sending email

Question

Hi,
Can you help me to send a pdf as an attachment while sending mail.
Also plz tell me the required configuration changes that need to be done.

Answer 1

It is important that where is your file which you are trying to attach and how you are creating the File object out of it to pass it to the MimeMessageUtils.setContent(). As such there is no specific location to place the the file you just need to create its File object correctly. E.g. if your PDF is getting created through some other application and it is present in say C:\app\output\pdf or /usr/local/app/output/pdf then what you can do is set a Java system property (let's name the system property as file.attach.dir) through your server startup scripts with like -Dfile.attach.dir=C:\\app\\output\\pdf or -Dfile.attach.dir=/usr/local/app/output/pdf
And then in your code you can do something like:
File attachment = new File(System.getProperty("file.attach.dir") + File.separatorChar + "attachment.pdf");
MimeMessageUtils.setContent(message, content, attachment, false);
You may also place the attachment files in an ATG specific folder and access it using atg.nucleus.DynamoEnv. Say the file is within a directory called "attachments" in the ATG data directory which defaults to <ATG>\home in case of a non-standalone EAR so you can do
File attachment = new File(atg.nucleus.DynamoEnv.getDataDir().getPath() + File.separatorChar + "attachments" + File.separatorChar + "attachment.pdf");
MimeMessageUtils.setContent(message, content, attachment, false);
If you make and deploy the EAR on application server as standalone then you might already have the ATG data directory set to some location through system property -Datg.dynamo.data-dir in your server startup scripts. So if that is the case you may use this same property as mentioned above in the first approach.
You can always check the file path and whether it is getting properly resolved by using Java File APIs like file.getPath() and file.exists() where file is the File object that you created. Make sure that file.exists() returns you true and you will not encounter FileNotFound Exception.