Pre-Populating an Outlook Email

[KeithHenn]

Hello Everyone,

My project is to allow an end user select a button and once this is done they would have an outlook email window open up, which would have the to, from, subject, body and attachments all set.

They would be able to edit the body and send it at any time. I've looked into mailto but I cannot get the attachments to work.

Has anyone done anything like this or can think of a solution, I am kind of stumped.

Thank you.
Keith

[Norm]

If there were defined protocols to the outlook mail program, that would be the way to go. I don't know what GUI programs have a programmable interface that would allow a program to communicate with the GUI program. Perhaps there are commandline args that could be set.
Another possibility (but very remote) is the Robot class. It can move the cursor and enter text to simulate a user.

[fishtoprecords]

Does it have to be Outlook mail? That is a pretty serious restriction.

A much easier thing to do is:

Generate a letter/annoucement, and email it to user@somedomain.com

which you can do using the normal Java mail functions.

[KeithHenn]

Does it have to be Outlook mail? That is a pretty serious restriction.

A much easier thing to do is:

Generate a letter/annoucement, and email it to "fdghth"
which you can do using the normal Java mail functions.

This is the end users request, we currently have it set up the way you have suggested.

I have found a product "Moyosoft" which seems to bridge the gap between java and outlook, I'm looking for any free solution before going the purchase route.

Anyone have success creating an eml file? One thing I thought of was to create an eml file save it to the server and have a bat file run to open the eml file. Does this sound possible?

Thanks again for your suggestion.