Larry Ah, the first clear description of the problem I've seen. Thank you so much! I asked the question not for a specific application but for the training books I'm working on. The only thing I don't understand in your posting are two phrases:
<<Secondly, whether it > will even succeed depends on whether the user has > installed and correctly configured an email client?>> I hear the words, but they have no meaning to me. > the optional tags in mailto:. Also, the mailto: tag>> THis implies that "mailto" is a command out of somewhere, with "tags" that can be found documented somewhere! Where!!!??? David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:38 AM Subject: Re: Using LAUNCH to SEND an Email > > To my surprise, I've received no answers from anyone > > on how to get R:Base to > > SEND an email, not just set one up, in Outlook > > Express. > > David: > > The issue is not so much using LAUNCH to send an > email, but what program you would launch to do the > sending. The mailto: tag, which is what I think you > are thinking of in connection with Outlook is not the > appropriate tool for automated emailing. For one > thing, an email client is a pretty "heavy" application > to use for such a light task. Secondly, whether it > will even succeed depends on whether the user has > installed and correctly configured an email client, > and on the degree to which the email client supports > the optional tags in mailto:. Also, the mailto: tag > does not support auto-sent email. I think this is > probably a good decision -- otherwise you might > innocently click on a link at some web site and wind > up sending out thousands of emails from your desktop > under your account. > > There are a couple of ways to handle sending emails. > > One is to use some software that sits on a server > somewhere and constantly polls a subdirectory for new > files. Each new file is sent as an email (emails are > just straight ASCII files with some special lines in > the header to specify from, to, subject, etc). This > solution doesn't require LAUNCH at all, since the mail > router is always running on some machine. However, it > does require the set up and maintenance of that > software. > > The other way is to use a command line mailer that you > fire off, giving it the name of a file or files > whenever you have mail to send. This would be > executed with the LAUNCH command and could probably be > made "invisible" to the user. > > The Postie program that has been mentioned here seems > to be inexpensive and feature rich. If it does not > meet your needs and you can't find something that > does, I'm always available to write utility programs > like that. I have previously written a command line > fax program for a client whose old DOS TSR fax program > did not survive an operating system upgrade. > > Best, > -- > Larry Lustig > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com
