>Hello
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>What I am trying to do is pop up the users default mail application from VB, and send a couple file attachments.
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>I was told that it is not possible to send file attachments using the mailto URL.
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>I tried using the MAPI controls that come with VB 5.0 but when I tried to send an E-Mail message, it prompted me for a profile, and then gave me the option of setting up a profile using the Microsoft Exhange Wizard. We are not using Microsoft Exchange here.
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>I then found a VB application that would send E-Mail over the internet using the Winsock control. The problem that I have with this is that the application needs to know the name of the Host as well as the E-Mail address of the client sending the E-Mail message.
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>All I want to do is send an E-Mail message to myself from within my VB application if an error is encountered.
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>What would be the best way to accomplish this.
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>Thank You
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>Gary Hagerty

Hi Gary,

If files you want to send to yourself are small, then you merge them and put in the body of your message, so you don't have to attach them. In this case you can send e-mail using the mailto URL.
This is the simplest solution I could come up with.
Just my 2 cents.