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I came across a problem with WP_Mail for sending form submissions with file attachments. Our site uses a CDN, so everything uploaded to the site, whether images and media by site builders or documents by users gets put on an external server.

This poses a problem for WP_Mail because it uses the PHPMailer addAttachment method to attach files, which expects local files. I was able to fix this by changing the line in wp_mail to use addStringAttachment, but of course modifying core files isn't really a fix. What is the right way to do this?

Thanks.

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  • you can always write the file to a temporary folder, attach it, send, then delete it
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Feb 16, 2022 at 16:31

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Solved by Tom J Nowell's suggestion. Our form plugin fortunately has a filter before the data is passed to wp mail, so there I was able to swap the attachment url for one pointing to the temporary folder.

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