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pj · Newbie Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 11

I know there are smtp and pop dlls available, but is there a way to send mail with an attachment using whatever the default email client is? I am writing an app that will be used at many locations where I do not know the smtp server and need to use the user's default email program instead.

Any ideas? I need this to work reliably on win95,98,nt and 2000

Thanks

Garrett · Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2002 11:28 pm Post subject:

run "mailto:garrett@eyrisdev.com"?subject=Testing

-Garrett

pj · Newbie Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 11

I need to specify all of

To
CC
BCC
Subject
body
attachment name

I didn't think that Mailto could do this?

I am hoping someone knows to access the MAPI mail recipient or something similar

Thanks

PJ

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 9:03 am Post subject:

Not that this helps with the attachment problem but you can also put in the CC, BCC and Body of your e-mail like this:

Serge · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 12:28 pm Post subject:

I came across the same problem with spaces in the RUN command and will now use your idea, SnarlingSheep.

What about attaching an attachment using the SHELL command - what is the correct syntax?

Serge

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 6:28 pm Post subject:

I've looked around a bit and can't think of an easy way to specify attachments.
"mailto:" doesn't support attachments.
"MAPI" does but VDS doesn't support it(as far as I know anyway).
Netscape and Outlook both have a program in the SendTo folder(@WINDIR()\SendTo) that allows you to send a file to their e-mail clients. If you can figure out their command line arguments you might be able to do something like that.
Probably the hardest way would be to figure out the user's default mail program in the registry, RUN it and send keystrokes/mouse clicks with the WINDOW command.
Perhaps someone that knows Delphi or C++ could make a commandline program that would send the mail through MAPI using the arguments supplied by a VDS program?
Delphi MAPI Source Code: http://www.thescarms.com/VBasic/MapiEmail.asp

Good luck.

Serge · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 11:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks for trying. I've looked into it on and off for quite some time and found nothing straight forward using MAILTO Crying or Very sad

.

Serge

moke · Contributor Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 162

I had the same problem. The way I got around it was to use the mail server for one of the websites that is being hosted for me. Apparently, some hosting companies provide generic mail services that do not require validation. This allowed me to use the VDSIPP dll and put in a default mail server. So even if a user doesn't plug in their mail server to my app it will default to a generic mail server that allows the mail to go through without validation. If you have access to something like that you might want to look into it.

moke

Dr. Dread · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 2:57 pm Post subject:

Struggled with this problem also - sending mail + an attachment through the user's default mail program.

Found no VDS solution to it, but I found this freeware commandline utility that will ship a file using MAPI
interface.

http://say.city.tomsk.net/soft_e.htm

Syntax:

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1565

SnarlingSheep that page you listed is source for a Visual Basic MAPI application not for Delphi.

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject:

Dr. Dread · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject:

Hey Skit!

Wake up Sleep

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 6:39 pm Post subject:

So you aren't talking about this one?

http://say.city.tomsk.net/mapimail.zip ?

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 6:40 pm Post subject:

Were we all drinking?

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 6:47 pm Post subject:

I saw a board with 'Free beer', so I couldn't resist... I believe it was Prakash's pinguin who hand it out, but I can't really remember... Wink