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String value as an email attachment

 
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I am programming a feature in a web application that sends e-mails. I have no problem with the e-mail sending part. But now I want to attach files to the e-mails. Uploading files from a multipart form and attaching these works well. My problem is that I need to attach a java String as a file as well. How do I do this?
The code for attaching a regular file looks like this:


File file = (File) attachments.get(i);
DataSource source = new FileDataSource(file);
BodyPart attachmentBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
attachmentBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(source));
attachmentBodyPart.setFileName(file.getName());
multipart.addBodyPart(attachmentBodyPart);



It would be nice if I could something similar but with a DataSource created from a simple String.

It should be simple. Does anyone know how to do this?

(I don't want to go through the hassle of saving it as a File or anything like that)

Thanks.
 
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