Remove automatically added email body text on email attachment #4533

mlevy823 · 2024-09-17T16:15:13Z

mlevy823
Sep 17, 2024

It would be nice to have an option of removing the automatically generated text that gets put into the email body when attaching a document to an email.

Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:

Example.pdf

Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled.

kjk · 2024-09-17T17:03:42Z

kjk
Sep 17, 2024
Maintainer

Sumatra isn't doing that. It's your e-mail program and it's impossible for Sumatra to change that.

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mlevy823 Sep 17, 2024
Author

Ah I see. It didn't happen with adobe acrobat so I just assumed it was sumatra. It seems that Windows is doing it (I am using Outlook). Apparently it is the "Send to" feature built into windows explorer using sendmail.dll.

mlevy823 · 2024-09-18T14:41:57Z

mlevy823
Sep 18, 2024
Author

I can confirm that this also happens in Thunderbird when attaching a pdf to an email via SumatraPDF, not just Outlook. I am using the prerelease with the CmdSendByEmail as a toolbar shortcut.

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wvutsr Dec 4, 2024

I can confirm that this also happens in Thunderbird when attaching a pdf to an email via SumatraPDF, not just Outlook. I am using the prerelease with the CmdSendByEmail as a toolbar shortcut.

Have you got any working solution since?

mlevy823 Dec 4, 2024
Author

I have not. I am not a programmer so it is out of my depth. I believe sumatrapdf currently uses SendMail.dll that is built into windows to attach the pdf. The SendMail.dll is the one putting in the text. The part of the code is in my comment below this one.

mlevy823 · 2024-09-19T17:39:40Z

mlevy823
Sep 19, 2024
Author

ExternalViewers.cpp, Lines 475-500:

// TODO: maybe use
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47639267/win32-c-sending-email-in-windows-10-by-invoking-default-mail-client
bool SendAsEmailAttachment(WindowTab* tab, HWND hwndParent) {
    if (!tab || !CanSendAsEmailAttachment(tab)) {
        return false;
    }


    // We use the SendTo drop target provided by SendMail.dll, which should ship with all
    // commonly used Windows versions, instead of MAPISendMail, which doesn't support
    // Unicode paths and might not be set up on systems not having Microsoft Outlook installed.
    ScopedComPtr<IDataObject> pDataObject(GetDataObjectForFile(tab->filePath, hwndParent));
    if (!pDataObject) {
        return false;
    }


    ScopedComPtr<IDropTarget> pDropTarget;
    if (!pDropTarget.Create(CLSID_SendMail)) {
        return false;
    }


    POINTL pt = {0, 0};
    DWORD dwEffect = 0;
    pDropTarget->DragEnter(pDataObject, MK_LBUTTON, pt, &dwEffect);
    HRESULT hr = pDropTarget->Drop(pDataObject, MK_LBUTTON, pt, &dwEffect);
    return SUCCEEDED(hr);
}

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wvutsr · 2024-12-04T12:31:51Z

wvutsr
Dec 4, 2024

Is there any way to circumvent this? Or is this something that can never be fixed?

2 replies

GitHubRulesOK Dec 4, 2024
Collaborator

@wvutsr
From discussion above it is a default Part of Outlook via Windows dlls
so you need to use Microsoft VS to add your own alteration to Windows standard methods

wvutsr Dec 4, 2024

Thanks for the quick reply. I will check if i can find a workaround then myself. Maybe a clear .textfield or something of that kind, after it has attached the file to a new email.

Remove automatically added email body text on email attachment #4533

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