PHP and Microsoft Outlook

[jroeck]

Hi all,

I'm working on a solution where I have to open Outlook from the web-site and post a message as an email into Microft Outlook Email editor.

Is there any way that I can do this ?

I know PHP is server-site executed and Microsoft Outlook is client-site executed. I thought of a combination with for example Java-Applet etc. - but maybe one of you had already came across similar issues.

Thanks
Juergen

 

[Vragabond]

Hmmm, am I not seeing something or do you just want the basic mailto: functionality?

<a href="mailto:me@myprovider.com?subject=My Little Email&body=This is the message in my little email.">Compose</a>

PS. This is pure HTML, no PHP involved here.

 

[jroeck]

Hi Vragabond,

thanks for the response. The requirements are as following:

Call from the Web-environment Outlook with parameter such as TO, CC, BCC, Subject, Body. Handover those values to Outlook and create a email thread within Outlook. The idea is that Outlook is just one of the email clients that is supported others are (Lotus, and for example Firebird). The issue with the HTML stream is the character restriction of ~700 characters per handover. This will not allow a simple usage of your used option.

Second item is to convert an incoming email in the Outlook box into a Web-Call and basically hand-over the email information and "copy & paste" the values into a web-form.

Hope this helps a bit more.

Thanks
Juergen

 

[Bastien]

If you are using the windows server as the same server as the Outlook, you can use COM to open the outlook app. Open and create the message as you require.

Another option might be to create some outlook account that takes the php generated email (using the mail function) and foward that to the group of designatd users.

Bastien

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