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| From: | Rick Strahl |
| To: | SteveP |
IAC, if you need fine control over email sending then a real email client is the only way to go.
+++ Rick ---
Ah, I use the SMTP Client approach in other areas of my app, so I will use that approach here as well.
Looks like I will need to setup a form that mimics an Email Client to allow for specifying Recipient(s), CC, BCC, Subject, Attachments, and a section for adding comments. I may also use a Browser Control to display the HTML Report at the bottom of the Send Email form. Thanks for the tip/info on ShowEmail. I missed that important piece of info (text only in the body) in the web article.
No can do... the text passed has to be text. You can't create emails this way.
The ShellAPI to do this is pretty much a lucky hack that the OS provides to feed data to another program via parameters.
If you want to build sophisticated emails with HTML content and attachments you need to use an SMTP client to send emails.
Something like wwSmtp will do the trick:
http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/wwClient_docs?page=_s9001zxj2.htm
This is part of West Wind Client Tools or West Wind Internet Protocols or West Wind Web Connection.
+++ Rick ---
Hi,
I am working with the ShowEmail Function. It works when a simple text string is passed as the Email Body.
I have an HTML Report generated via the VFP Report Listener saved as a .HTM file on disk.
My goal is to embed this report into the Email Body, but having no luck.
I'm using this approach: lcBody = FILETOSTR("HTMLFilePath")
ShowEmail(lcReceipient, lcSubject, lcBody)
When I use the above ShowEmail Command with lcBody set to the HTMLReport string, the Email Client never displays. Is there a way (correct way) to embed the HTML Report into the email body?
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