>>>Several months ago, one of our developers (since departed) wrote a function to allow us to send e-mail from our VFP application. This is done by using ShellExecute and passing it a mailto address and a subject line. Here is the code:
>>>
>>>
>>>** m2mEntryform.NewEMail()
>>>PARAMETERS lcRecipient, lcSubject
>>>
>>>lcMailTo = "mailto:" + ALLT(lcRecipient) + IIF(NOT EMPTY(lcSubject), "?subject=" + lcSubject, "")
>>>
>>>** ShellExecute parameters: hWnd Integer Window Handle
>>>** lpOperation String Operation to perform
>>>** lpFile String File, URL, or e-mail address to use
>>>** lpParameters String Not used in our implementation
>>>** lpDirectory String Not used in our implementation
>>>** nshowCmd Integer Not Used in our implementation
>>>
>>>DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN SHELL32 INTEGER, STRING, STRING, STRING, STRING, INTEGER
>>>
>>>=ShellExecute(0, 'OPEN', lcMailTo, '', '', 1)
>>>
>>>RETURN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>This works fine for Outlook or Outlook Express. However when we try to do this on a machine that is using GroupWise as their e-mail client (which has a FROM field as well as a TO field), the mailto address winds up in the FROM: field, and the subject winds up in the TO: field. I've been handed the responsibility of correcting this problem, but I'm not even close to a Win32API expert.
>>>
>>>Is there any way that I can force the mailto: address into the TO field, regardless of wheter I am using Outlook or GroupWise (or Lotus Notes, for that matter), or pass an optional from: field that will be ignored if the e-mail client (Outlook) does not make use of it? If not, is there an easy way (i.e., redesigning the e-mail utility with WestWind's tools are not an option) that I can detect what my e-mail client is, and then create my lcMailTo variable accordingly?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>
>>Bill,
>>
>>If the various applications have different syntax or order of fields for sending the email, then what needs to be done is check the for email application and format the string accordingly. I'm not entirely sure what the best way to do this would be. There is a registry key (under Win98SE) that might be what you need:
>>
>>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSDetect\AllApps\EMAIL
>>
>>This, on my machine, lists a number of various email clients, and which ones are installed. Neither GroupWise nor Notes were included, however.
>
>George,
>
>I did a little checking, and the e-mail clients listed under that registry do NOT include GroupWise or Lotus Notes. On the machine I'm testing on, it does not have Outlook installed at all, only GroupWise. In that case, the MSDetect registry is not created at all.
>
>There is a registry entry for HEKY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Novell\GroupWise, but I could not find anything that indicates that this is the default e-mail client in the same way that the MSDetect\AllApps\EMAIL registry does. I may just have to check for the existence of the GroupWise registry.
>
Bill,

Thanks for the heads up