If you want to use Outlook:

loOutlook=CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

loMsg = loOutlook.CreateItem(0)

loMsg.BodyFormat= 2 && olFormatHTML

loMsg.HtmlBody="<p>HTML body text</p>"

loMsg.Body = "Plain body text for clients without HTML mail support."

loMsg.Subject="Subject"

loMsg.Recipients.Add("someguy@somewhere.com")

loMsg.Recipients.Add("somegal@anotherplace.com")

loMsg.Attachments.Add("attach1.txt", 1)

loMsg.Attachments.Add("attach2.txt", 1)

loMsg.Attachments.Add("attach3.txt", 1)

Try

llSent = loMsg.Send()

Catch to loException

&& handle it

Finally

release loMsg

release loOutlook

Endtry

HOWEVER

There are some drawbacks to this.

- Despite it sending via Outlook, you will find that any Outlook signatures or stationery that would normally apply won't get used on the programmatically created message.

- You may find that the dread Outlook security message ('A program is trying to send mail on your behalf...') will crop up, depending on Outlook and Exchange Server version.

--

Alan Bourke

alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, at 5:22 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:

> VFP9SP2 app

>

> Customer uses Outlook and wants the app to generate an email to a given

> email address from the app AND attach certain documents to it.  Customer

> will preview it and then manually hit "Send" on their own.

>

> What's the BEST (and hopefully easiest) way to implement this? Invoke

> Outlook via CREATEOBJECT and set properties and attachments

> accordingly?  Typically in the past I've used MAILTO and ShellExec but

> this time the extra requirement is to have files attached from the

> application too, which makes MAILTO not an option, if I understand

> correctly.

>

> tia,

> --Mike

>

>

>

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