[AccessD] ShellExecute to send short e-mail via non-MS email clients...

> Works with Eudora.
> Works fine for me with Pegasus Mail.
> Works for me with Groupwise as well.
> Works for Outlook
> Works for Outlook Express
Thank you everybody!
Obviously it works with any default e-mail client on MS Windows.

> How it works under MS Windows "hoods" is described here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/mind/0199/cutting/cutting0199.asp

For me this means there is protocol all the e-mail clients follow.
And under MS Windows mshtml.dll seems to be the program, which is calling
default mail clients - the question is how it does that?

Is that as simple as

<default e-mail client executabel fullpath> /mailurl:<mailto protocol
compliant parameters> ?

I.e. for Outlook Express in generic form it should look like:

"%Outlook Express Folder%MSIMN.EXE"
/mailurl:mailto:%t?cc=%c&bcc=%b&subject=%s&body=%m

But it doesn't work when I try to use real parameters. It works only for the
first parameter (To) - the tail parameters are getting lost...

What is the default (command line) mailto protocol all e-mail clients
follow? Or
there is a different protocol they all accept? - I cannot find it via
google....

Why so simple things are implemented so complicated way and are so badly
documented? (just a rhetoric question)

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert L. Stewart" <rl_stewart at highstream.net>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] ShellExecute to send short e-mail via non-MS email
clients...


> Works with Eudora.
>
> At 12:00 PM 11/2/2005, you wrote:
> >From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru>
> >Subject: [AccessD] ShellExecute to send short e-mail via non-MS email
> >         clients...
> >To: "!DBA-MAIN" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> >Message-ID: <008501c5dfb9$67547820$6401a8c0 at fincomplex.spb.ru>
> >Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="koi8-r"
> >
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Could you please, anybody who has non-MS email clients, check that this
code
> >popups your email client send mail window?
>
>
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