Ed and Erik,

Also (and this may be implicit in the version of OS/IE/MailClient installed), but I don't think mailto: is generically supported by Netscape. In Netscape clicking a mailto link will always bring up it's email client and not the system email client.

>>>Can anyone tell me the commands for sending
>>>an email in VFP through the default email app
>>>and navigating to a web page from withing VFP?
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>>To open the default mail editor with message addressed to a specified address:
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>>oShell = CREATEOBJECT('Shell.Application')
>>oShell.Open("mailto:esmoore@flash.net")
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>>To open the default web browser and navigate to a specified page:
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>>oShell = CREATEOBJECT("Shell.Application")
>>oShell.Open("http://www.levelextreme.com")
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>Just a reminder - you need at least Shell version 4.71 to use Shell.Application (the oldest versions of Win95, NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 pre-SP2 don't support the Shell.Application object, and you have to update the operating system components to get the support.)
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>Wscript.Shell's Run method, and the ShellExecute() or ShellExecuteEx() API calls can also launch the mailto and URL references. VFP6 has a _shellexecute class in environ.vcx in the FFC, and _urlcombobox in _internet.vcx from the FFC has a navigate method that will launch a browser and navigate to the selected page.
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>>If you want to create the entire email and send it without user interaction, you can use wwIPStuff, but it does not go through the default mail client, it doens't use a mail client at all: it uses wininet.dll to send the message directly to the mail server using low level windows functions.
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>>You can also look in the files section here for information about the MSMAPI control, but this control limits you to an MS client.
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>>For a lot more control over sending e-mail automatically, you should look into the Mabry mail control. I think there is a link from the front page here to download it.