Ignore attachment errors and proceed to send the email anyway.

[nitinkan]

Request to add functionality to swithmail: Attempt to send email even when there is a failure to access one (or more attachments), and log an error in the log file and conditionally to the bottom of the email body or as an error.log attachment.

[tbare]

interesting – I’ll look into this. Shouldn’t be too hard to implement.

[nitinkan]

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[onlinestatements]

I second this feature to ignore attachment doesnt exist
Not all of my messages have attachments and I don’t want the ones that don’t to fail to send

[tbare]

I haven’t had a chance yet – been a really busy month+ for me, but it’s still on my radar.

Thanks for the suggestion, and I’ll post back on here when I have an update pushed.

[onlinestatements]

I figured out a workaround and can get the email to send with or without an attachment.

if exist "%confirmdir%\confirms\!attachname!!atname!" echo !filename: =!.attachments!atname! & set attachexist=yes
if "!attachexist!" EQU "yes" set checkattach=^/a "%confirmdir%\confirms\extract\!attachfile: =!"

then in the swith command line I place the checkattach !variable!
between the subject and body text settings like:

/sub "email subject" !checkattach! /btxt "emailbodytext.txt"

so now if the attachment doesn’t exist the variable will be empty and no /a will be attached to the command

Also if you are running your script in a for loop be sure to clear the checkattach variable at the start of the loop like
set checkattach=

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by onlinestatements.

[onlinestatements]

the echo filename is of course optional.
I just wanted to display the name of the attachment when sending the email if an attachment exists.

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