Hello experts,
I'm coding a routine which should open a new mail form of the mail standard
mail client installed on a system (e.g. outlook, outlook express, netscape
mail, etc.) for support reasons. The routine should fill in some textual
information. It should, however, not mail the information directly. The user
should be able to check the contents of the mail and he should be able to
edit the mail before sending it.
Consequently, I have the simple question: Is there any method in visual
basic (.net) to force the standard mail client of a machine to open a new
form (like mailto:... in HTML) and fill in some information?
Best regards,
John 9 1679
You can use shellexecute api call and pass mailto:yo*********@xyz.com in the
lpfile paramater.
Vikram
"John Lafrowda" <la*****@laa.com> wrote in message
news:bv**********@news.uni-stuttgart.de... Hello experts,
I'm coding a routine which should open a new mail form of the mail
standard mail client installed on a system (e.g. outlook, outlook express, netscape mail, etc.) for support reasons. The routine should fill in some textual information. It should, however, not mail the information directly. The
user should be able to check the contents of the mail and he should be able to edit the mail before sending it. Consequently, I have the simple question: Is there any method in visual basic (.net) to force the standard mail client of a machine to open a new form (like mailto:... in HTML) and fill in some information?
Best regards,
John
Hi John,
Not only one more, the most simple one I think is the one I have pasted in
bellow.
When you paste it in your IDE it looks nice again. :-)
It is really easy but complete and therefore it looks now maybe complex.
\\\by Fergus Cooney & small corrections by Cor
'A reference to System.Web may be necessary
'in the Project for this Import to work.
Imports System.Web.HttpUtility
Public Sub StartDefaultMail (sTo As String, _
Optional sSubject As String = "", _
Optional sMessage As String = "")
Try
sTo = UrlEncode (sTo)
sSubject = sSubject
sMessage = sMessage
Process.Start ("mailto:" & sTo & "?subject=" _
& sSubject & "&body=" & sMessage)
Catch e As Exception
MsgBox ("Couldn't start default email application" _
& vbCrLf & e.Message)
'or
Throw New Exception ("Couldn't start default email app", e)
End Try
End Sub
///
I hope this helps a little bit?
Cor I'm coding a routine which should open a new mail form of the mail
standard mail client installed on a system (e.g. outlook, outlook express, netscape mail, etc.) for support reasons. The routine should fill in some textual information. It should, however, not mail the information directly. The
user should be able to check the contents of the mail and he should be able to edit the mail before sending it. Consequently, I have the simple question: Is there any method in visual basic (.net) to force the standard mail client of a machine to open a new form (like mailto:... in HTML) and fill in some information?
* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit: \\\by Fergus Cooney & small corrections by Cor 'A reference to System.Web may be necessary 'in the Project for this Import to work. Imports System.Web.HttpUtility
Public Sub StartDefaultMail (sTo As String, _ Optional sSubject As String = "", _ Optional sMessage As String = "") Try sTo = UrlEncode (sTo) sSubject = sSubject sMessage = sMessage Process.Start ("mailto:" & sTo & "?subject=" _ & sSubject & "&body=" & sMessage)
Catch e As Exception MsgBox ("Couldn't start default email application" _ & vbCrLf & e.Message) 'or Throw New Exception ("Couldn't start default email app", e) End Try End Sub ///
Why did the code loose all indentations?
--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
>Why did the code loose all indentations?
Because I have made my HKW database with a function to do that for me.
:-)
But Fergus also said it was not nice looking what is your opinion?
Cor
Cor,
* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit: Why did the code loose all indentations?
Because I have made my HKW database with a function to do that for me.
:-)
But Fergus also said it was not nice looking what is your opinion?
Mhm... I prefer indented code even in newsgroup posts because it makes
reading the code much easier. Just a thought.
--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Will be changed,
Herr Herfried
Sir Fergus
:-))
Cor But Fergus also said it was not nice looking what is your opinion?
Mhm... I prefer indented code even in newsgroup posts because it makes reading the code much easier. Just a thought.
Cor,
* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit: Will be changed,
Herr Herfried Sir Fergus
:-))
:-)
--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Thanks for all the replies.
Process.Start("mailto:...") seems to be the easiest solution.
Cheers,
John
"John Lafrowda" <la*****@laa.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bv**********@news.uni-stuttgart.de... Hello experts,
I'm coding a routine which should open a new mail form of the mail
standard mail client installed on a system (e.g. outlook, outlook express, netscape mail, etc.) for support reasons. The routine should fill in some textual information. It should, however, not mail the information directly. The
user should be able to check the contents of the mail and he should be able to edit the mail before sending it. Consequently, I have the simple question: Is there any method in visual basic (.net) to force the standard mail client of a machine to open a new form (like mailto:... in HTML) and fill in some information?
Best regards,
John
Public Sub StartDefaultMail(ByVal [To] As String, Optional ByVal Subject
As String = "", Optional ByVal Message As String = "")
Try
Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo
psi.UseShellExecute = True
'psi.UseShellExecute = False
psi.FileName = "mailto:" & HttpUtility.UrlEncode([To]) & _
"?subject=" & HttpUtility.UrlEncode(Subject) & _
"&body=" & HttpUtility.UrlEncode(Message)
Process.Start(psi)
'-------------------------
Catch ex As Exception
Throw New Exception(ex.Message, ex)
End Try
End Sub
i'm using this function,and it works! my question is:
is it possible to get more information from the outlook template, like
the mail server?
very important!
thank you
--
gmarques
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