Send email with attachment

[Bill Vlahos]

Thanks Derek.

What I want to do is essentially what Microsoft does in Word and  
Excel. You can email the document you have open and it uses the  
default email client on both Macs and Windows to do it.

That's a good point about web mail programs. I hadn't thought of  
that. Unfortunately, I can't depend on a server somewhere for this  
software.

Bill

On Aug 26, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Derek Bump wrote:

> Bill,
>
> What you could do is create the body of the email and encode the
> attachment directly into the message via content types (I believe it's
> called MIME).  To see what I mean, view the source of an email message
> with an attachment.
>
> I am not sure though if *all* email programs would honor the embedded
> code when it's passed via the mailto:, and would instead just  
> display it
> as inline text as opposed to an attachment.  This may create confusion
> for some users.
>
> There is one other consideration that I hope you have not ignored, and
> that is that a LOT of people don't use traditional email programs.   
> They
> use web based email like Hotmail or Yahoo Mail.  I had implemented a
> mailto: script in one of my programs, only to replace it later on  
> with a
> PHP script on my server that would send the email regardless of what
> type of email they used (or if they even had email at all).
>
> I hope that helps you in your efforts.  If you're interested in a copy
> of the PHP script, email me off-list and I'll send you a copy.
>
>
> Derek Bump
> Dreamscape Software
> http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com
>
>
> Bill Vlahos wrote:
>> The following command works great for opening a new email message and
>> putting the address(s) in it. What I would like to also do is add a
>> specific attachment to the email as well but I don't see a  
>> parameter for
>> doing that. This would be for Mac and Windows now and Linux when  
>> Rev 2.9
>> comes out.
>>
>> revGoURL "mailto:guido at sales.example.com"
>>
>> I know there are ways to send email directly from Rev apps but in  
>> this
>> case I would like to leverage the email program the user already  
>> has and
>> not require setting up SMTP parameters.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill Vlahos
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