Hi all,

I asked this in vb last month then decided this group
would be more appropriate. Sorry for the dual post.

I want to shell to OE from my vb6 program with an
attachment.

I can shell using mailto:and send To:, From:, Subject:,
and Body: with shellopen, but mailto: does not seem to
support attachemnts. OE just ignores the attachment.

In Adobe Acrobt Reader 7.0 there is an email option
and it launches OE (my default mail client) with the
PDF file as an attachment, so I know it's possible to do.

This seems like something that would be pretty easy, but
it has me stumped.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
kpg

The mailto: URL doesn't support attachments, as you've found out.

There are ways to start an OE message with an attachment, as a number of
programs support that option and you can do a Right Click and Send To
mail recipient via Windows file Explorer.

Maybe this will help:
http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/MapiEmail.asp



--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"kpg" wrote in message
. 16...
Hi all,

I asked this in vb last month then decided this group
would be more appropriate. Sorry for the dual post.

I want to shell to OE from my vb6 program with an
attachment.

I can shell using mailto:and send To:, From:, Subject:,
and Body: with shellopen, but mailto: does not seem to
support attachemnts. OE just ignores the attachment.

In Adobe Acrobt Reader 7.0 there is an email option
and it launches OE (my default mail client) with the
PDF file as an attachment, so I know it's possible to do.

This seems like something that would be pretty easy, but
it has me stumped.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
kpg

As Michael Santovec once said in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6
_outlookexpress

http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/MapiEmail.asp

Yes, MAPI seems the way to go.

Thanks.

JMail is free. http://tech.dimac.net

steve

"kpg" wrote in message
. 16...
As Michael Santovec once said in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6
_outlookexpress

http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/MapiEmail.asp

Yes, MAPI seems the way to go.

Thanks.

kpg wrote:
Hi all,

I asked this in vb last month then decided this group
would be more appropriate. Sorry for the dual post.

I want to shell to OE from my vb6 program with an
attachment.

I can shell using mailto:and send To:, From:, Subject:,
and Body: with shellopen, but mailto: does not seem to
support attachemnts. OE just ignores the attachment.

In Adobe Acrobt Reader 7.0 there is an email option
and it launches OE (my default mail client) with the
PDF file as an attachment, so I know it's possible to do.

This seems like something that would be pretty easy, but
it has me stumped.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
kpg
No but I know someone who does.