Re: Help required on Script for opening a mail window and populating the fields
Re: Help required on Script for opening a mail window and populating the fields
- Subject: Re: Help required on Script for opening a mail window and populating the fields
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:24:06 +0100
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[If I'm not mistaken you (or someone else?) asked this about 1 day ago
already. Give people some time to receive and read your message before
repeating it.]
At 16:05 -0800 UTC, on 21/03/2001, Mahesh Panchmal wrote:
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Hi,
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The following command
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open location "mailto:"; & default_address & "?subject=" & mail_subject
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opens a new window in the default mail client on the
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machine and populates the To and subject field of the mail.
No it doesn't. Even just the "?subject" syntax is proprietary. It'll work in
some clients, but you can't rely on it to work with "the default mailclient".
If that's good enough for you, then feel free to use it. Just be aware that
it may fail with some mailclients - you may want to find out in which ones it
fails and try to catch the error and handle it appropriately.
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Could somebody
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please let me know the syntax to populate the mail body also? I tried with
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"?content=....", it doesnt work.
Actually, it does in my mailclient (Mac Eudora 4.x). Which goes to show that
this too is an unreliable hack. (And I bet this is supported in even less
mailc lients.)
How about explaining what you're trying to achieve with this script? Perhaps
people can suggest an alternative route that is more reliable.
HTH
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