New Outlook message via browser

[Marc Castrechini]

The business requirement is relatively simple:
Automatically open a new mail message using the default mail client (Outlook
2003) and attach a document located on the server.

Obviously we need to open the New Mail Message on the client so we are
trying to determine if this is possible by setting the content type and
streaming the content to the browser.

TIA,
- Marc Castrechini

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Marc,

Based on my understanding, your question is about how to create a new
message at client-side with an attachment from your web server. Let me know
if I've misunderstood anything.

Talking about the VCal example, you will need to generate such a .msg file
at server-side (with necessary files attached) and let the user download.
However, creating such a .msg file will need office automation at
server-side, and unfortunately this is not supported by Microsoft
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757).

I'm afraid ActiveX Control may be the best viable solution here.

Regards,
Walter Wang (wa****@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Evan Camilleri]

at least i have a decent name!

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go for it.
who cares what some random guy named Camilleri thinks about sites that use
a form.
it'll be great