On 16 Feb 2002 18:27:05 GMT, Christopher Jahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>And it came to pass that pete wrote:
>
>> On 16 Feb 2002 02:00:07 GMT, Glenn Miller
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>>On 15 Feb 2002, pete was seen to have posted this wee note
>>>into netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news, to which I have
>>>responded as follows: 
>>>
>>>> I need to send a fairly complex multipart mime message by
>>>> launching Netscape from a program.  I format the mime
>>>> message myself.  I want NS to come up with the message in
>>>> the outbox, then the user can address it and send it. 
>>>> Preferrably this should work back to Netscape 4.0. Doesn't
>>>> look like you can do this using Simple MAPI.  there's a 
>>>> SendMail javascript command that might work.  Can I create
>>>> an HTML file on the fly that contains the javascript to
>>>> send the message and launch the browser with that file as
>>>> an arg?  Any ideas how to proceed? 
>>>
>>>I hope not!
>>>
>>>Sounds to me like you're wanting to get Netscape/Mozilla to
>>>behave like Outlook - that is, to send Viruses!
>>>
>> More like trying to get NS to do what any other modern mail
>> client including Eudora and yes, the Outlook products, can
>> do.  And you can drop the siege mentality, MHTML wasn't
>> invented in Redmond ya know. 
>> 
>
>"Any other?"  You've named only two that do this.  
>
>I can name a few more that don't.

Netscape/Mozilla, even as far back as 4.x could properly render and
generate MHTML messages.  The only isue I have here is why I can't do
the same using one of the published developer APIs (MAPI, Automation,
command line interface, whatever...)

>
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pete


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