>Hi All. I can use ShellExecute() API to load my mail client and send an email by passing "mailto:
jos@timbukone.com" as the filename parameter. I'm using Outlook. Will this technique work for any mail client that an end-user has installed?
Hi Jos,
Looking in my code for some code that you can use, I discovered what might be a design flaw (in my own code, to be clear about it).
I have written a routine, based on ShellExecute() indeed, that sends an email. If it fails, for example due to a missing email client, it will simply return false. So, you can tell the user that it fails, and eventually what caused the failure.
But I noticed that I disable the email button beforehand if there's no client for 'htm', based on FindExecutable(). It may be that, at the time I developed this stuff (not so long ago), I assumed that a browse client and email client go hand in hand.
But now I challenge this assumption. What do you think. May it be that some people don't have internet, but do have an email client??
Groet,
Peter de Valença
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