Sending an email with a file attachment

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Richard, I will give that a try.  Thanks also to Warren for pointing
out the potential problems.

Probably a CGI script (as mentioned in a later email from Richard) would be
the safest way to go but I'd be starting from ground zero on how to do that.

Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time
figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic
functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?!

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment
> > data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the
> > email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way
> > to do this.
>
> Maybe I'm coming in late to this thread, but if the body of the email is
> less than 1k have you considered just sending it along as a param in the
> url?:
>
> on mouseUp
>   put "someone at somewhere.com" into tAddress
>   put "Hello!" into tSubject
>   put "This is the body"&cr&"of the email." into tBody
>   put "mailto:"& tAddress & "?" \
>       &  "subject="& tSubject &"&" \
>       & "body="& tBody into tEmailURL
>   launch url tEmailURL
> end mouseUp
>
> I use this to have customers send bug reports, and I can grab the OS
> version, my app's version, screenRect, and other useful info along with the
> relevant portion of the executionContexts all within the size limit on the
> URL passed to most email clients.
>
> So far the only really restrictive client I've come across in years is
> GMail, which apparently allows only ~512 chars; everything else our users
> have tested on allows at least 1k, which has been plenty to get the info I
> need from them.
>
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>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
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