[AccessD] Open an email (to send) in Access

Well...

On that note, can I make the email address a hyperlink in a normal text box and use this somehow? 
They really want the email to just be a hyperlink which when they click on it causes the email 
client to open with that email in the To:

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Darren - Active Billing wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> There are heaps of ways to do this
> I like using Mailto: when there is not need to get fancy
> Using Mailto: and shelling to it does a lot of the basics and will open the
> 'default' email client for that pewta
> 
> EG try this in START|RUN of XP
> 
> 	mailto:jw at someServer.com?subject=testing
> 
> And then try this in a VBA module
> ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> Private Sub cmd_SendSimpleMailtoEmail_Click()
> 
> Dim strRecipient As String
> Dim strSubject As String
> Dim strFullStringToPass As String
> 
> 
> strRecipient = "jw at someServer.com"
> strSubject = "Just testing"
> strFullStringToPass = "mailto:" & strRecipient & "?subject=" & strSubject
> 
> Debug.Print strFullStringToPass
> 
> Call ShellExecute(hwnd, "open", strFullStringToPass, vbNullString, vbNullString,
> SW_SHOWNORMAL)
> 
> End Sub
> ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> Hope this helps
> 
> Darren
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:55 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] Open an email (to send) in Access
> 
> Does anyone have any code that will open outlook if it isn't already and then
> open an email for 
> send, placing an email address in the To:
> 
> I have code for opening Outlook and automatically sending the email but not to
> open the email and 
> allow the user to fill it in.  I can go figure it out but if you have it...
>