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

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

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

Call shellexecute("0","Open":\00\, "mailto:info@winwinsol.com?subject=test&body=test%20body":\00\,:\00\,:\00\,1) </QUOTE> —- === At 28 FEB 2011 06:18PM Martin Drenovac wrote: === <QUOTE>Cheers Bob. </QUOTE> View this thread on the Works forum...