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by **Harjo** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:08 pm

There is a way to open the default client, and I think it is cross-platform:

make a text field: url (make sure it is big enough, let say: 8000) and fill it with:

Code: Select all: mailto:[email protected][email protected],[email protected][email protected][email protected]&subject=mailto%20scheme&body=Hello%20Everybody

make the following method:

Code: Select all: application.showURL(url)

On Windows it is working!, can somebody test this on mac and linux?

by **IT2Be** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 3:46 pm

It works... On developer and client on OS X 10.3

It doesn't work on Linux client (with OS X server)...

by **ROCLASI** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:04 pm

Ofcourse this is not a Servoy issue but an OS issue.

The OS knows what email app is the default and sends the event to that application. if the application doesn't understand that event (like Groupwise on MacOS9 and below) then it ends there.
Ofcourse webmail doesn't work either with this because you use a webbrowser for this.

I dunno how and/or if you can set the default email application under Linux but i would look there first.

HTH

by **IT2Be** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 5:04 pm

Well, probably you are right but 'mailto:whasoever' works like expected from within the browser...

by **ROCLASI** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:05 pm

IT2BE wrote:Well, probably you are right but 'mailto:whasoever' works like expected from within the browser...

Interesting...
Is this Netscape/Mozzila with the email app inside the browser app ?
Or does it open up a third party email app?

by **IT2Be** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:46 pm

third party: KMail...

by **Harjo** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:58 pm

Does anybody know, how to add an attachment in the mailto-function?

by **IT2Be** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 10:17 pm

I can imagine this is not possible since there is also a limit to the total number of characters you can send in the complete 'mailto' string... Don't know how much that limit is though.

by **Harjo** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:24 am

It can be done! I have searched around, and there are (complicated) examples: uses vbscript and API-calls like ShellExecute. and examples using MAPI-calls
But I get non of them, working right. (I mean with the abbility to add attachement.)
Is there a vbscript-guru around here? For us, it only has to work in Windows!
here is a link: http://www.smithvoice.com/simple.htm

by **Jan Aleman** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:29 am

I havn't seen any that will work with Outlook. Why don't you use a bean like ezSMTP?

by **Harjo** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:14 am

Because most of ouer customers use outlook or an other MAPI-compatible browser. And we are converting a Filemaker-App to Servoy. In Filemaker this is a standard function, to open an email-client, with an attachment. The reason that we don't use ezSMTP is that ouer customers want to keep track of the emails in there own email-client.

by **admin** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:54 am

HJK wrote:The reason that we don't use ezSMTP is that ouer customers want to keep track of the emails in there own email-client.

BCC the user

by **IT2Be** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:59 pm

That's exactly what I suggested my customers. They accept and, after thinking about it, even like this...

by **rarbuthnot** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:17 pm

I'm trying to figure out how to include an attachment using this method of email generation.

It looks like someone else needed this as well, but it was never resolved.

Any ideas?

by **Harjo** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:38 pm

not possible!

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