How to open mail client? 1

[TonyGroves]

I want to write a procedure that will create a file, then open the default mail client program, creating a new message with the file attached, ready for the user to fill in the address and cover note and send. Since this is a popular feature in many applications, I presume there's a simple standard way to do it, but I just can't find out how! Can anybody help please?

Thanks a lot.

Tony.

 

[2ffat]

I've never had to do it but see if this article can help:

http://bcbjournal.com/articles/vol3/9905/Sending_mail.htm?PHPSESSID=5277d41cf275f48695098609433fd3f8

James P. Cottingham
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[TonyGroves]

Thanks for that. That article is about mailing directly from the app using SMTP, which is really a different thing altogether. I've heard the term MAPI (Messaging API) used in relation to what I'm looking for, but the MAPI help files don't seem to cover that territory at all.

 

[tsh73]

after some searching I found two Delphi pages, I think it could apply:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=3600

and linked from there

http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/delphi/network/f236.shtml

At my place (and probably in many others), attach in mailto is not supported so you probably have to stuck with MAPI

 

[TonyGroves]

Your second link did the job, thanks!

I was able to condense it down to:
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#include <mapi.hpp>
TMapiRecipDesc to={0,MAPI_TO,0,"test@test.com",0,0};
TMapiFileDesc attach={0,0,-1,"c:\\temp\\test.emf",0,0};
TMapiMessage msg={0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,&to,1,&attach};
MapiSendMail(0,0,msg,MAPI_DIALOG,0);
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