Steve:

Whats nice about this SHELLEXECUTE method is that i am not sure what the person wants to send in the email message to another employee. But i "know" the msg will be about a particular project/account. So i just pop up a new email msg item and "pre-fill" it with some info about the accout for reference.

I think its SHELLEXECUTE ignoring the linefeeds.



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>>If it's Outlook, do we need to use ShellExecute? :)
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>We don't need to...but he apparently wants to. :)
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>>And it looks like mailto method doesn't correctly work with every e-mail client. It doesn't work with GroupWise for sure... (We're going to switch to Exchange soon)...
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>I assume he's looking for a generic method, since he's not automating Outlook using its object model.
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>Chris, a better generic approach is to use MAPI, and even more generic (no email requirements at all) is to use a control such as Mail/X from www.mabry.com or wwwIPStuff from www.west-wind.com.