I can open Outlook, insert an email address and fill in the subject area using:  

@ASynchShell("mailto: emailaddress?subject=Have a Happy Turkey Day everybody?")

Is it possible to also insert a file at the same time?

And while we’re at it, is it also possible to fill in the body of the message with the file contents?

I was able to insert a file using CreateAProcess but not the subject or address at the same time.

I would prefer to use @ASynchShell.

Thanks

The webpage in the link includes a /a switch that appears to allow a file attachment. Also, it appears that &body might get you the message body. Something like:
@ASynchShell("mailto: emailaddress?subject=Have a Happy Turkey Day everybody&body=bodytext")


BTW, Would the built-in @SendMail command work for you?

I guess that I should have looked at the current web page.  That reference, as I noted, was from some OLD notes.  I had a printout of that page and /a was not included.  I don't know if /a is an addition or if my original was in error.

Where do you see the reference to "&body=" ?  I know that is good for Thunderbird but can't find that for Outlook.

In any case, thanks for the update Erika.  I have made a new printout that includes the "/a".

&body= does place whatever follows the = sign into the message portion of the email. Now, what’s the trick to getting it to enter text or jpg content from a variable? In other words I can't get &body= to place a files contents into the message area, only whatever is typed after the = sign shows up.

The a/ switch only seems to work when using CreateAProcess. I didn't have any luck when trying it with @shell.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I can't get it to accept the + vMsg part. I'll keep pounding on it.

Thanks again.

Only that it looks pretty daunting, but I'm going to work on it.

Thanks.

Ok Erica, @SendMail is not that daunting, it works well!

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Have a great holiday!

Maybe a little more help on this?

When I enter a complete path into the @SendMail code to attach a jpg, the email works great. If I use a variable and place it in the same location, the email never gets received. I don’t know if it gets sent.

For example, this works:

……."writer@NotReallyAServer.com, "", "Hey guys, how are you?", "", "", "C:\my.jpg")

This does not work:

……."writer@NotReallyAServer.com, "", "Hey guys, how are you?", "", "", vPath)

While playing around with it, I added this:  ,""  to the code so that it looks like this:

……."writer@NotReallyAServer.com, "", "Hey guys, how are you?", "", "", "", vPath)

With this I receive two emails, one with the attachment and one without. The one with the attachment has the attachment scaled down in size to about 20% of the original and cannot be opened.

Any ideas on how to get it to accept the variable?

Thanks.