[vwnc] Sending "Pretty" Email from VW ...

Our applications (Customer/Order/Entry/AR/AP/Manuf/...)
allow our users to create and send email from reports, interactively,
etc.  The email is logged and sent.

We have some clients who are now asking for "pretty" (meaning
html, images etc) email.  Currently we just create a simple text
email body using standard VW text fields.

I can see a few ways of handling this, but I am an curious
would others may have done
    1. create or find an html editor/viewer for VW
    2. swap to an external html editor/viewer (have not looked
          for one yet)
    3. invoke an email client (e.g. Thunderbird) passing it the
          recipients and subject and attachments (If I can do that)
          and let the user edit there and send

Any comments would be welcome!

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Dennis Smith wrote:

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>     3. invoke an email client (e.g. Thunderbird) passing it the
>           recipients and subject and attachments (If I can do that)
>           and let the user edit there and send

You can pass thunderbird at least these three parameters
to, subject and body,

like this:

"%path%\thunderbird.exe" -compose
"to=address,subject=subject,body=messagetext" (*)

Calling this via ExternalProcess should be easy enough.

However, I do not know whether referenced images in an html messagetext
are automatically attached.
What is more, this way means you would need to have a finished html already.


Also, have a look here:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html

This differs from the thunderbird settings, though.

Hope this helps a bit.

Claus
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On Sep 12, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Dennis Smith wrote:

Which/how many operating systems do you need to support?

>
>    1. create or find an html editor/viewer for VW

>
>    2. swap to an external html editor/viewer (have not looked
>          for one yet)
>    3. invoke an email client (e.g. Thunderbird) passing it the
>          recipients and subject and attachments (If I can do that)
>          and let the user edit there and send

4. tell the OS to open a .html file which contains instructions to  
contact your app; your app then serves the opened browser one of the  
commonly available javascript based html editors.


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Reinout Heeck wrote:

On Sep 12, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Dennis Smith wrote:

  

Our applications (Customer/Order/Entry/AR/AP/Manuf/...)
allow our users to create and send email from reports, interactively,
etc.  The email is logged and sent.

We have some clients who are now asking for "pretty" (meaning
html, images etc) email.  Currently we just create a simple text
email body using standard VW text fields.

I can see a few ways of handling this, but I am an curious
would others may have done
    

Which/how many operating systems do you need to support?
  

Windows for the next year or so -- I would be happy with a windows solution
for now.

One day -- Mac/Linux -- but thats in the future.

   1. create or find an html editor/viewer for VW
    

   2. swap to an external html editor/viewer (have not looked
         for one yet)
   3. invoke an email client (e.g. Thunderbird) passing it the
         recipients and subject and attachments (If I can do that)
         and let the user edit there and send
    

4. tell the OS to open a .html file which contains instructions to  
contact your app; your app then serves the opened browser one of the  
commonly available javascript based html editors.


R
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You can use "mailto:"  and shell command as well.  The limitation on any
shell invocation is the length of the URL and the command line.
Currently in all versions of MS windows the URL length is about 2k in size.

As far as html in the message body - you can set the default Mozilla
client to compose and send all the e-mails as HTML, and when you pass
you message as properly composed HTML , the Mozilla displays and sends
it  accurately, with  all of the formating.

Hope this helps

--Mark

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