revGoURL problem

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/7/05 3:03 PM, Andrew Sharp wrote:

> 
> ----------
> Thanks for your reply Mark. I tried that and it still does not work. I 
> even reinstalled Rev after deleting everything and tried again but it 
> still does not work. I contacted the support folks and RunRev and they 
> said there may be something wrong with the registry... Truly grateful 
> for any ideas!
> ----------
> 
> ----------
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> On Jan 5, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> 
>  > I am still fairly new to Revolution but according to everything I have
>  > read this should work.
>  >
>  > on mouseUp
>  >   put "mailto:"&fld "eMail" into theMailAddress
>  >   revGoURL theMailAddress
>  >   if the result <>"" then answer the result
>  > end mouseUp
>  >
>  >
>  > There is a valid email address in field "eMail"
>  >
>  > I have tried this with both revMail and revGoURL. Instead of opening
>  > my email program, it opens my browser with an http address
>  > followed by my mailto address.
>  >
>  > This is the address I get in my browser:
>  > 
> <http://www.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2005-January/http://mailto:someone@somewhere.com/>http://mailto:someone@somewhere.com/ 
> 
>  >
>  > I have tried setting the default mail program to Outlook and Eudora
>  > and back again but neither work.
>  >
>  > The same stack works fine on OS X but I can't get this to work on my
>  > XP machine.
>  > Any ideas would be appreciated.
>  >

I didn't notice this the first time you posted, but the above doesn't 
look like a valid email URL. Are you creating it with a script? The 
first part of the URL shouldn't have the mailing list business at the 
beginning; it should start with "mailto:".

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