Send Failed Message as Attachment (SMTP)

Question

Hi,
I am trying to send an SMTP email with a failed message as an attachment.  I currently have a simple orchestration that contains a direct receive port that listens for failed messages coming from a particular receive port.  I have tested this by creating a simple send port with a pass through transmit pipeline to send out the failed message.  I then created a SMTP send port that sends a mutipart message.  The message contains 2 parts, and EmailBody and EmailAttachment.  The EmailAttachment is type System.Xml.XmlDocument.  I assign the FailedMessage to the EmailAttachment in my Message Assignment shape.  I also set the SMTP.MessagePartsAttachments to 2.  However, the email send does not contain the failed message as an attachment.  Could this be do to the fact that the failed message is a flat file?  Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jon

Answer 1

Hi,
1)Use SMTP.Attachments Property:
MessageOut(SMTP.Attachments)="C:\\Attachments\File.pdf|C:\\Attachments\File1.pdf";
You can send a list of file using "|" as a delimiter between the different files.IN the above we are attaching two files "File" and "File1" as attachment.
In this we are not loading the file into biztalk
2)The other method is to send a multipart message from BizTalk. Depending on context settings you can send all message parts as attachments, or use the first part as the message body.
Creating a multipart message is a little involved so I won't go into it - generally you will need a helper class that adds parts to your message.
The context properties (set in a message assignment shape) are:
MessageOut(SMTP.MessagePartsAttachments) = n
// Where n can be one of three values
0 (same as not set) - Do not attach any biztalk message parts. This is a default setting.
1 - Attach only biztalk body part
2 - Attach all parts
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