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Allow attachment in Mailpoet SMTP service

Gaurav jain

Please allow attachment for woocommerce transactional mails sent via Mailpoet SMTP service. Reason is many businesses have to send invoices when order completed. Also useful for RMA process, which needs defective photo attachments.

May 21, 2020

Guy Rintoul

For invoices, would you not just host them on your server and provide a link to the file in the email? That's what most companies seem to do.

Travis Pflanz

@Guy Rintoul: With that method, you're also storing all those files indefinitely. I have many clients whose sites generate a .pdf on the fly and attach it to an email, but the file is never saved. Same with images for at least one of my clients. The form filler uploads their images. They're attached to the email and sent to the website owner, then the files are automatically deleted from the system a week later.

Guy Rintoul

@Travis Pflanz: fair point

Zuyo

MailPoet cite "bandwidth concerns" and "security implications with Spam filters" as reasons not to allow attachments. I am not sure what security implications are but maybe they can implement a limit on the size of the attachment(s). I am in the same position, want to attach pdf invoices, terms and conditions, etc and having to have another plugin for sending transactional e-mails through SMTP to avoid spam folder is not ideal.

Travis Pflanz

@Zuyo: Valid concern, but you can't offer an email service platform that eliminates much of the actual purpose of emails... That doesn't make any sense.