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Re: Running the email default program with ShellExecute

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From: Giovanni Benintende
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 05:42
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I am sorry Bob,
When I posted the question, I omitted the caption content because did'nt know
the "mailto:" statement and the email address was'nt relevant for me.
Giovanni


"Bob Gonder" <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> ha scritto nel messaggio news:49ldsv0qojjsoua63ogkvssh85f7u9ku29@4ax.com...
> Giovanni Benintende wrote:
>
> >I'm tryng to run Outlook Express or other default email program using ShellExecute, without success.
> >
> >  ShellExecute(Handle, open, Label1->Caption.c_str(), 0, 0, SW_SHOWDEFAULT)
> >where Label1->Caption is a current email address.
>
> You didn't show what Caption contained, so there's no way to know for
> sure what's wrong with it.
>
> You could try something like this:
> ShellExecute(Handle, "open","mailto:name@domain", 0, 0,SW_SHOWDEFAULT)
>
> Or you could go to MSDN at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
> and look up "Simple MAPI"
> or the better MAPISendMail.
>
>
>
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