Hi all,

I have set up a function to send an email with attachments. It is supposed to send a couple of htmls, a text file, and a couple of .xls files.

When I receive it, everything works fine, but the .xls files are named ATT00001.xls ATT00002.xls etc...The rest naming convention is correct. I don't understand how some file names are correct and some other are not when they all go through the same function...

Any thoughts on this? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance 

 You can give names to attachment

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2003/11/14/513.aspx

Refer here 

Thank you for your answer mudassarkhan .

I need to maintain the original names that the user has uploaded.

Thanks 

Give the original names to Attachment.Name property since if you don't give name to Attachment it will rename it

Hi and thank you for your answers.

I am using this:

string a = ViewState["Readersfilename"].ToString();

message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(MapPath(a)));

After your suggestion I changed that to

string a = ViewState["Readersfilename"].ToString();

message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(MapPath(a), a));

However it accepts a IO.Stream as the first argument, and I don't want to go there. I just want to input the file to be attached and maintain the original name...

Actually here's my complete code for that. I suspect it has to do with the persisting of the controls or something?

for (int i = 9; i < 12; i++)


{ 
   fu =   (FileUpload)Page.FindControl("FileUpload" + i.ToString());
            if (fu.HasFile)
            {
                ViewState["Readerspath"] = fu.PostedFile.FileName.ToString();
                ViewState["Readersfilename"] = fu.FileName.ToString();
                fu.SaveAs(MapPath(@fu.FileName.ToString()));
                ViewState["readers" + re.ToString()] = fu.FileName.ToString();
                string a = ViewState["Readersfilename"].ToString();
                message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(MapPath(a)));
                re++;

               }

} 

 Do this way

Attachment attachFile = new Attachment(txtAttachment.PostedFile.InputStream, strFileName);

Refer my article

http://www.aspsnippets.com/post/2009/02/15/Attaching-files-from-Stream-using-FileUpload-Control.aspx

There is no option other than passing origna filename to attachment