Sending Email VFox7.0

[ChibiNeko]

Hi,

I have a button on a form, when clicked it opens a new email message. To me, it looks like my code is specifying that a user must have MS Internet Explorer, and MS Outlook Express in order to send out an email message.

Question---> Is there a way that I can check to see what a user's default email client is? There's gotta be either an ActiveX control for this purpose, or a built in Visual FoxPro function that does this. Here's the code that I'm currently using in the Click Event of the button:

LOCAL l_oIE, l_emailaddr

l_oIE=CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application&quot
IF TYPE('l_oIE') <> 'O'
g_osubs.displaymessage(&quot;Unable to create InternetExplorer Object for mail processing.&quot
else
l_emailaddr = &quot;mailto:my@emailAddress.com&quot;
l_oIE.Navigate(l_emailaddr)
RELEASE l_oIE
endif

 

[Mike Gagnon]

a built in Visual FoxPro function that does this.

No, there aren't any VFP functions to do that. Take a look at the FAQ section, there are a few suggestions to send e-mails via VFP and automation.

Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.

 

[IRABYY]

ChibiNeko,

try this:

Run RegEdit;
Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSDetect\AllApps\EMAIL;
Check DetectionCount value: if it's non-zero - check the sub-keys to see which E-Mail client is installed.

HTH.

Regards,

Ilya

 

[wgcs]

My win2k machine doesn't have a key at:
\\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSDetect

 

[IRABYY]

wgcs:
My win2k machine doesn't have a key at:
\\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\MSDetect

Maybe, mine is WinME. Anyway, there should be something else to find it out. I ran the search for &quot;EMAIL&quot; in my RegEdit, and that was what it turned up.

Regards,

Ilya

 

[ChibiNeko]

IRANYY and wgcs,

I'm aware that this is stored as a Windows Registry setting but, I'm a bit leery at calling or querying for a Microsoft Registry key, the name/location/value in the Registry likely varies by the version of Windows operating system that a user has, as (wgcs pointed out with Win Me).

Maybe a MAPI library can do this check for &quot;which application is the default email client&quot; for me, I'm not sure.

 

[wgcs]

Here's a way to determine the default mail client, as the handler of the mailto: protocol... look at the program referenced at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command
(gleaned from

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1263/

)

 

[Mike Lewis]

ChibiNeko,

I'm not clear why you have to instantiate Internet Explorer. If you just ShellExecute() the mailto: link, you will get the same result.

Here is some code:

DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN shell32.dll ;
INTEGER hndWin, STRING cAction, STRING cFileName, ;
STRING cParams, STRING cDir, INTEGER nShowWin

lcMail = &quot;mailto:john@mycompany.com&quot;
ShellExecute(0,&quot;open&quot;,lcMail,&quot;&quot;,&quot;&quot;,1)

For more details, see:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk/foxst-22.htm

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk