launch URL does not open Outlook

[Sarah Reichelt]

Mark, are there any non-standard characters in your email? I don't
often use Windows, but I seem to remember having a problem with
accented characters in the body of an email.

Cheers,
Sarah


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:32 AM, mfstuart <mfstuart at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Matthias,
> I appreciate the reply :)
> I have an email to RunRev support to address this issue, so I'm waiting for
> a response.
> To know what makes a successful launch and what makes it fail.
> I'm a purist in the sense that software should work as designed.
> Meanwhile, I will check out Sean's library.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Stuart
>
>
>
> runrev260805 wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>> i remember, that i had a similar problem some time ago here under windows.
>> The problem was, that text bigger than about 1500 characters could not be
>> sent completely to the mail client. It was cut off at about 1500
>> characters.
>> I am not sure for what reason, but i t didn´t work. Maybe a mapi32.dll
>> thing.
>>
>> To get my app release in time i decided to use Shao Sean´s SMTP-library,
>> which sends the email directly without Outlook.
>>
>> I use the library quiet often in my projects, because i am creating report
>> software with automatic email delivery, which should run unattended.
>>
>> Don´t know, if this helps, but hope so.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: launch URL does not open Outlook (24-Mrz-2009 20:58)
>> From:    mfstuart at cox.net
>> To:      runrev260805 at m-r-d.de
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have a script that uses "launch URL theURL" to open Outlook, but
>>> sometimes it doesn't open it.
>>> theURL = mailto:mark at somecompany.com?Subject=blah blah blah&Body=This is
>>> the message body text, with sometimes lots of text. And sometimes a small
>>> amount of text.
>>>
>>> I think the amount of text in the body doesn't matter, as in one test the
>>> body text was only a few sentences, and Outlook didn't launch.
>>>
>>> I've tried it on Outlook 200 and 2003 - same results.
>>>
>>> Anybody with some ideas on this as to why Outlook doesn't open?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mark Stuart
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