Thursday, June 21, 2007

Sending attachments using the "mailto:" protocol

It works with Outlook at least. I think this example job is enough

static void Test_MailTo(Args _args)
{
   str recepient='mbelugin@gmail.com';
   str subject = 'Test';
   str attachment = @'c:\AUTOEXEC.BAT';
   str url = strFmt(
       'mailto:%1?Subject=%2&attachments=""%3""',

       recepient,
       subject,
       attachment
   );
;
   WinApi::shellExecute(url);
}
at

12 comments:

  1. Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi11:16 AM

    This does not seem to work saying some switch not correct. When i removed attachment it started working.
    Can u help?

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  2. Max Belugin6:24 AM

    What version of outlook do you use?

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  3. Unknown6:17 AM

    The question is whether this is the recommended way to send mail or not ? Could you talk a bit about that ? (I mean compared to SysMail and SysINetMail)

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  4. Max Belugin6:22 AM

    It depends on what do you want.

    SysMailer sends E-Mail without wny interaction with user.

    Mailto protocol opens new message window and allows to edit the message

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  5. Unknown11:20 PM

    But why use the shell API and not the COM Class Wrappers (SysOutlook* classes) to send mail using much greater customization ? That sort of defeats the purpose of office and axapta integration no ?

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  6. Max Belugin11:22 PM

    Can you post an equivalent example using SysOutlook

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  7. Unknown12:18 AM

    static void Job4(Args _args)
    {
    COM sysOutlookApplication;
    SysOutlook_NameSpace sysOutlookNameSpace;
    SysOutlookMapiFolder sysOutlookMapiFolder;
    SysOutlook_Folders sysOutlookFolders;
    SysOutlookAttachments sysOutlookAttachments;
    SysOutlookAttachment sysOutlookAttachment;
    SysOutlook_Items collection;
    COM item;
    COMVariant type;
    COMVariant _source;
    COMVariant _type;
    COMVariant _position;
    COMVariant _displayname;
    ;

    #sysOutLookComDef

    sysOutlookApplication = new COM("Outlook.Application");
    sysOutlookNameSpace = sysOutlookApplication.getNameSpace("MAPI");

    sysOutlookNameSpace.logon();
    sysOutlookFolders = sysOutlookNameSpace.Folders();
    sysOutlookMapiFolder = sysOutlookNameSpace.getDefaultFolder(#OlDefaultFolders_olFolderOutbox);

    collection = sysOutlookMapiFolder.Items();
    type = new COMVariant();
    type.int(#OlItemType_olMailItem);
    item = collection.add(type);
    sysOutlookAttachments = item.attachments();
    //attach sample file
    _source = COMVariant::createFromStr(@"C:\sigmatel.log");
    _type = COMVariant::createNoValue();
    _position = COMVariant::createNoValue();
    _displayname = COMVariant::createNoValue();
    sysOutlookAttachments.add(_source,_type,_position,_displayname);
    item.to("raza.abbas@gmail.com");
    item.subject("test message");
    item.body("test body");
    item.display();
    }

    you could so item.send() to send the mail without seeing the message window too. Besides this, there's another class called the SysINetMail which uses Outlook too.

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  8. Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi10:59 PM

    I am using the same version of Microsoft Outlook that comes with Office 2007. I think it is 12.0...

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  9. Max Belugin11:05 PM

    I am using O2003 so it can be a version depended difference

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  10. Unknown5:52 AM

    Adding attachements from the mailto protocol was considered a security issue that has been fixed in outlook 2007. So no more attachements in the mailto link possible ...

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  11. Alex11:30 AM

    Once my friend opened MS Outlook and showed that all mails were damaged.But fortunately I advised him next utility-converting ost to pst files.Program solved his problems in a minute and free of charge.Besides tool showed how read Microsoft Outlook .ost files and extract all necessary data from it.

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  12. Nhel7:27 PM

    I copied codes of Razza,but I encountered error.

    Variable SysOutlook_NameSpace has not been declared.

    Do I have to do something with my AX environment.Im using AX 2009 kernel version 5.0.1000.52

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