Removing file path from attachment name when using MailMessage

I am trying to send an attachment using MailMessage class.

var attachment = new Attachment(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["pathToPDFs"] + pdfItem.Value);
mailMessage.Attachments.Add(attachment);

This adds the file as an attachment but when I receive the file on my email th开发者_开发问答e name is

//Inetpub//Path//To//pdf//name.pdf it should be just name.pdf.

Where am I going wrong?

ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["pathToPDFs"] is set as C://Inetpub//Path//To//pdf// pdfItem.Value is name.pdf

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When you receive the e-mail attachment, is it the correct attachment?

Meaning, do you actually get the name.pdf?

Also, your location should be: C:\\inetpub\\path\\to\\pdf\name.pdf

Have you tried hard-coding the file location and seeing if that fixes your problem?

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I have to confess first, I am guessing.

The constructor may be using the full path as the name. If you set the name property after creating the object if might work.

var attachment = new Attachment(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["pathToPDFs"] + pdfItem.Value); 

attachment.Name = pdfItem.Value;

mailMessage.Attachments.Add(attachment);

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I ran into the same problem, and later on I found that it was because I used the relative path of the file, i.e. ../../name.pdf. If I get the full path to create the attachment, then the attachment file name in the email doesn't contain the path.

string full_file_name = Path.GetFullPath("../../name.pdf");
Attachment attachment = new Attachment(full_file_name);
mailMessage.Attachments.Add(attachment);