launch URL to get an e-mail with BCC, Subject and Body (was revMail and BCC)

Andre.Bisseret andre.bisseret at inria.fr
Tue Jun 3 07:48:18 EDT 2008


Hi,
I did not received any e-mail from my server about this question. That  
could be due to the incident, then I dare to post it again.
Thanks a lot in advance for any help.

Meanwhile, I just noticed on the Archives site that Josh Mellicker  
answered.
Sorry Josh, I did not received your post. I thank you a lot.  As you  
suggested, I just tried "altEmailHarness.rev"
With it, I got e-mail where each fields are filled in, but,  
infortunately, all accented characters are suppressed :-((
So it seems working only for English language.
Furthermore, it seems that BCC is not working. When I put my address  
in BCC only, I do not receive the message.

MY PROBLEM :
  I need to compose e-mail with addresses in BCC. revMail does not   
allow that.
Thanks to a previous answer from Sarah Reicheit (subject was "revMail  
and BCC) I am now trying to use the mailto protocol in a launch URL  
command.
(launch URL is now recommanded in 2.9.0 instead of revgourl which  
still works but which is deprecated).

  In order to fill in the three fields of an e-mail (BCC, Subject and  
Body), I have been struggling  with (&s, &"&"&, ? etc.)
After hours of trials and errors I succeeded (partly) :

  I have three variables :
  tWho : contains the list of addresses to be put in the BCC field;
tSubject : contains the subject of the e-mail
tBody : contains the text of the e-mail

Then the following is working
put "launch URL" && quote & "mailto:?BCC=" & tWho & "&" & "Subject=" &  
tSubject & "&" & "Body=" & tBody & quote into tCommand
do tCommand

BUT this is working only if tSubject and tBody do not include any  
special characters (including CR; so that tBpdy can't have more than  
one line).

Now my problem is with URLencode
I tried  to URLencode tSubject and tBody
Unfortunately, that does not works :
With one line only in tSubject as well as in tBody (and no special  
characters), if I URLencode them, I get an e-mail but with the
URLencoded text !
For example I get : "Our+next+meeting+in+Paris" :-((

And furthermore, if tSubject include at leat one accented character  
then no e-mail shows up
if tBody includes at least one accented character, or several lines,  
then the Body of the e-mail is empty

So, the only case where I get a complete e-mail is when the texts of  
tSubject and tBody have only one line each, include not any special  
character and are not URLencoded.

Seems I am missing something about URLencode?

Any help would be very much appreciated

Best regards from Grenoble
André



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