Question

I’m sending attachments using the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient in C#.
The attachment names are the same as the name of the file I pass into the attachment constructor

myMail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(attachmentFileName));

How would I go about setting a “nice” name for the attachment? The names I currently have are basically numeric IDs indicating which occurrence of a report is attached. My users are looking for something more friendly like “results.xls”.

Answer 1

See Attachment.Name Property:

Gets or sets the MIME content type name value in the content type associated with this attachment.

You can set the Attachment .Name property to anything you like. In the example inside the last link, you could have :

// Create  the file attachment for this e-mail message.
Attachment data = new Attachment(file, MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet);
data.Name = "VeryNiceName.dat"; //(not in original example)
...
message.Attachments.Add(data);