Sendgrid-nodejs: Sending attachments via url.

[DylanPiercey]

In [email protected] and below you were able to send attachments by providing sendgrid with a url, the structure of an attachment looked like so:

{
    filename: 'something.js',
    contentType: 'application/javascript',
    url: 'https://test.com/some/url'
}

Is this possible to do now? It seems rather expensive for me to download the file to my mail server, load the entire thing in ram and put it into a base64 string just to send it out to sendgrid.

[thinkingserious]

Hello @DylanPiercey,

Ah, that's a great feature, I'm going to leave this ticket open so we can add this to the new Mail Helper.

For this ticket to climb priority in our queue, we need +1s and/or comments. A pull request with a signed CLA also jumps things up quickly in our queue.

Reference: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-nodejs/blob/967fb3105908617b41b761d3f18bbc623eb4579a/lib/file_handler.js

On a side note, how about just including a link to the attachment (assuming these are large files)? I ask because I'm heading to BoxDev in a few weeks and that is one of the use cases I will be demonstrating.

[thinkingserious]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the follow up materials from the Box demo I referenced earlier: https://sendgrid.com/blog/using-box-with-sendgrid-to-simplify-inboundoutbound-email-attachments

[sidimomo]

where is the solution guys ?

[thinkingserious]

Hi @sidimomo,

We have not implemented a solution yet within the library, but I have added your +1 to help this issue gain priority in our backlog. Thanks!

With Best Regards,

Elmer

[mbernier]

We created issues for Hacktoberfest for Box, DropBox, and S3 - this being solved for any URL within the library would be pretty awesome!

[johan-lejdung]

Any status on this issue? Has it already been added maybe?

[childish-sambino]

I've created an internal ticket to track this request (_reference ID: EID-2818_). I will circle back here when there's an update, but closing the issue here as it's not something that can be done in client-side code (w/o download/uploading/streaming the files).