Caroline,

Looks like you got an e-mail with VFP question :) It was a little bit strange at first to read an answer without a question...

>Dave,
>Check out the WindowsAPI section and the ShellExecute command. Also if you post a message here I'm sure you will get a host of other suggestions - but in its basic form:

>lcMailTo = Evaluate(This.eMail+".Value")
>lcMailTo = "mailto:"+lcMailTo
>lnReturn = ShellExecute(_VFP.hWnd, "Open", lcMailTo, "", Sys(5)+Curdir(), 10)
>

>
>HTH
>Caroline
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>Caroline,
>
> i saw your response to a question about opening the default email client on a user's machine. you suggested using the basic mailto command. i have tried to find information about that command, but can't. do you have any idea where i could get it. i seems like something so simple as opening the email client would be easy.
>
>thanks,
>dave luttman