email attachments

daveterry

Has anyone done any workflows creating email attachments?

I have a partial workflow working but don't know how to hand the attachment off to the workflow.set_output(?).

I'd like to send text documents to my Kindle as attachments and/or HTML files.

Thanks in advance for any help.
...dave

Webmaster4o

Check out smtplib for sending email. Nice tutorial here.

daveterry

Thanks. Sure I could build my own smtp interface.

Was thinking it might be a simple task to use Editorial's Send Email workflow module. But instead of placing text/html into the body, I was looking for a way to simply ATTACH the existing file. If that's not doable, I'll go the build-my-own solution.

Thanks for the quick reply.
...dave

Webmaster4o

I think email attachments work, the file is uploaded to a server somewhere, and a link to a download is included in the HTML of the email. This effect could be achieved by uploading the file to dropbox, I think.

omz

There's currently no way to use the built-in email sheet for sending attachments, so using smtplib is probably your best bet.

daveterry

Thanks. I'll start coding. If successful I'll share the workflow.
...dave

daveterry

Send to Kindle is now available as a workflow:

http://www.editorial-workflows.com/workflow/6407874913763328/7uCv_3FMxlo

All comments and improvements are welcome.

...dave

adiosx

Hello everybody.
This is my first question on that forum and I hope someone will have time to answer.

I need to send the text as a .txt file as ATTACHMENT in mail and not as text in mail.
Can I ask you if you have found a way of doing so and if you did, is there a way of getting that workflow.
Thanks in advance.

( I am new. I am French. I use Editorial for script writing for 2 weeks now. It is perfect for me. But I have still issues I can't fix. And I don't know nothing about coding or Python for the moment and, because I am already late to finish a script I am on at the moment, I don't plan to learn coding or Python for the next weeks.)

mjakubowiak

Try this workflow:

http://www.editorial-workflows.com/workflow/6470443393351680/d6tSDa8k_jk#

adiosx

Thank you very much for this quick answer. It works perfectly.

To you think it is possible to have the possibility of "sending the text as an attachment" in a ACTION?
(Like the simple Action " COMPOSE EMAIL" but with text as attachment in place of text on the mail)

mjakubowiak

Not really, see discussion above.
You can always attach a file from dropbox directly to a new message in mail.app, but it requires even more tapping