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{{tag>category:"OpenInsight 32-Bit" author:"dsig@sigafoos.org" author:"dsigafoos" author:"Martin Drenovac" author:"Bob Carten"}}

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==== Howto get Email to launch new message (OpenInsight 32-Bit) ====
=== At 27 FEB 2011 12:32:59AM dsig@sigafoos.org wrote: ===
 
 
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What i am trying to do is get the email client running on the desk to open for a new email message.  This would be what happens if you click on 'DSig (SigSOlutions)'.  the browser just 'launches' the MAILTO command which windows know to open a email client.



In the 4.1.1 days (and i think xp) this could be done with the following two lines of code



nbr=dsig@sigafoos.org"

rtn=Utility("RUNWIN","start mailto:" : Nbr : " /m")



This would tell outlook or my client TheBat that a new email should be created and it puts the name in the TO section.



I have tried every iteration of this i could think of.  Finally on a hail mary i tried changing the fix Colin had for launching a web page.



He gave me this ... put in a file and then use Utility("RUNWIN",Filename) to launch it.







This works great for web pages.  so for grins i changed the 'www.revelation.com' and put in 'mailto:dsig@sigafoos.org' and tried it .. 

It worked perfectly .. except for launching the browser at the same time 



So ... there is just something i am missing ... mailto: is a windows "launch" command (or was).  



There must be some way to mimic the behavior of the browser ..



Ideas .. tia


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=== At 27 FEB 2011 12:53AM dsigafoos wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>whew .. that was a fun one.  It turns out that shellexecute works with it to open the email client.

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=== At 28 FEB 2011 09:43AM Martin Drenovac wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Right - what exactly are you saying is the code that you wrote to email directly out of OI?

Do you mind to post the actual code..



Cheers

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=== At 28 FEB 2011 05:25PM Bob Carten wrote:  ===

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Call  shellexecute("0","Open":\00\, "mailto://info@winwinsol.com?subject=test&body=test%20body":\00\,'':\00\,'':\00\,1)





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=== At 28 FEB 2011 06:18PM Martin Drenovac wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Cheers Bob. 

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