sending an email (an easy way)

[Josh Golden]

hello, In my application I want to send an email when a certain event
ocuurs. It should pop-up the user's email client and fill in the send to
address and subject and body. Kind of like I can do with
mailto:us**@dom ain.com in HTML. Since it will be installed on the server
and run over the network I won't be able to install the office PIA on every
users machines. Is there a really simple way to do this?

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Josh Golden" <jo***@wachovia .com> scripsit:

hello, In my application I want to send an email when a certain event
ocuurs. It should pop-up the user's email client and fill in the send to
address and subject and body.

My FAQ:

Opening the default mail client with a mail template:

Sample based on work by Fergus Cooney and Cor (mpdl.vb), optimized and
extended by Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]:

Add a reference to "System.Web.dll ". Then you can use this code:

\\\
Imports System.Diagnost ics
Imports System.Web

Public Sub StartDefaultMai l( _
ByVal [To] As String, _
Optional ByVal Subject As String = "", _
Optional ByVal Message As String = "" _
)
Try
Dim psi As New ProcessStartInf o
psi.UseShellExe cute = True
psi.FileName = _
"mailto:" & HttpUtility.Url Encode([To]) & _
"?subject=" & HttpUtility.Url Encode(Subject) & _
"&body=" & HttpUtility.Url Encode(Message)
Process.Start(p si)
Catch ex As Exception
Throw _
New Exception( _
"Default mail client could not be started.", _
ex _
)
End Try
End Sub
///

Usage:

\\\
StartDefaultMai l( _
"fo*@goo.ba z", _
"Invitation ", _
"Do you want to come to my party?" _
)
///

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Kevin Hodgson]

I've tried to use the code listed below, but have run into a problem.

It replaces all spaces in Message and Subject with + signs.

So that something like

Message = "This is the information you requested."

Comes out as

This+is+the+inf ormation+you+re quested.

In Outlook's message window. This is launching Outlook 2000 SP3 on Windows
XP.

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:2j******** *****@uni-berlin.de...

* "Josh Golden" <jo***@wachovia .com> scripsit:

hello, In my application I want to send an email when a certain event
ocuurs. It should pop-up the user's email client and fill in the send to address and subject and body.

My FAQ:

Opening the default mail client with a mail template:

Sample based on work by Fergus Cooney and Cor (mpdl.vb), optimized and
extended by Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]:

Add a reference to "System.Web.dll ". Then you can use this code:

\\\
Imports System.Diagnost ics
Imports System.Web

Public Sub StartDefaultMai l( _
ByVal [To] As String, _
Optional ByVal Subject As String = "", _
Optional ByVal Message As String = "" _
)
Try
Dim psi As New ProcessStartInf o
psi.UseShellExe cute = True
psi.FileName = _
"mailto:" & HttpUtility.Url Encode([To]) & _
"?subject=" & HttpUtility.Url Encode(Subject) & _
"&body=" & HttpUtility.Url Encode(Message)
Process.Start(p si)
Catch ex As Exception
Throw _
New Exception( _
"Default mail client could not be started.", _
ex _
)
End Try
End Sub
///

Usage:

\\\
StartDefaultMai l( _
"fo*@goo.ba z", _
"Invitation ", _
"Do you want to come to my party?" _
)
///

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>