Re: Emailing with default client

I've tried the mailto: method, but I can't seem to add an attachment. I'm watching another program do the very thing I am trying to do, but I don't know how it is doing it. It opens the default mail client compose window with the specified file attached. Amazingly it works when I have either Outlook Express or Thuderbird as my default mail client.

I've tried using the VB6 MAPI controls (MAPISession & MAPIMessages), I can sent through Outlook Express, but not Thunderbird. When I send through Outlook express it makes me enter my password twice - the fist time is when it connects (it then wants to download all my new messages), then again when I got to send. Frustrating :(

Cor Ligthert [MVP] wrote:
Carlos,

That is systemwebmail. A default client is opened in this way.
\\\
///a reference to System.Web
///using System.Web;
///using System.Diagnostic
Process.Start ("mailto:"; + HttpUtility.UrlEncode("NotMyFirstName@xxxxxxxxx")
+ "?subject=Does this helps" + "&body=How do you do?");
///

Cor

"Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]" <carlosq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:eAj7xD5YGHA.4424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Dustin,

See if there is something here:

How do I send an email with attachments?
http://systemwebmail.com/faq/2.3.aspx

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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"Dustin Davis" <dustin.davis@xxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje news:OuMRB3yYGHA.4688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(using VB.NET 2005)

I'm writing a desktop application that I would like to have the ability to email files. I've set up the SMTP portion, now I would like to have a MAPI option.

I found a MAPI tutorial, but it does a bit more than I want it to. What I would like to do is this:

1. Open the default mail client's compose window.
2. Add an attachment

Then the user can fill out the To: Subject: etc.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,
Dustin



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