Sending email with attachment using amazon SES

Question

I am trying to send an email that contains an attachment (a pdf file) using the amazon SES API.

I am using Symfony2 so I included the AmazonWebServiceBundle in my pr

Answer 1

I managed to create a raw MIME Message in the below manner to send an email with attachment (.pdf file), using Amazon SES sendRawEmail. This is for plain javascript usage; one can surely refine it further add other Content-types too.

1. Use a library like jsPDF & html2Canvas to create the PDF file & save the contents into a variable & get the base 64 data:

   var pdfOutput = pdf.output();
   var myBase64Data = btoa(pdfOutput);
   

2. Use the below code to create the MIME Message. Note, the sequence is important else the email will end up as a text email exposing all the base 64 data :

   var fileName = "Attachment.pdf";
   var rawMailBody = "From: testmail@gmail.com\nTo: testmail@gmail.com\n";
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "Subject: Test Subject\n"; 
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"NextPart\"\n\n"; 
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "--NextPart\n";  
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\n"; 
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n"; 
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"" + fileName + "\"\n\n"; 
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "Content-ID random2384928347923784letters\n"; 
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + myBase64Data+"\n\n"; 
   rawMailBody = rawMailBody + "--NextPart\n";
   

3. Invoke sendRawEmail:

    var params = {
         RawMessage: {
           Data: rawMailBody
         },
         Destinations: [],
         Source: 'testmail@gmail.com'
       };
   
    ses.sendRawEmail(params, function(err, data) {
      if (err) alert("Error: "+err); // an error occurred
      else     {
   
      alert("Success: "+data);           // successful response
      }
   
    });