win32com: create email message in windows default app?

[Mark Hahn]

Can someone point me in the right direction to tell windows to run the
default email application, create a new message, and let me populate it with
subject, body, and attachments? I've been studying win32com.client and I
think I could use it for a specific application like outlook, but I need it
to work for any app such as Eudora.

[News M Claveau /Hamster-P]

Re: win32com: create email message in windows default app?

Hi !

But what is "windows default email application" ?

In windows, with WSH, you can write :
Dim str,objEmail
Set objEmail = CreateObject("C DO.Message")
objEmail.From = "toto@titi. fr"
objEmail.To = "tata@tutu. com"
objEmail.Subjec t = "Msg-try"
objEmail.Textbo dy = "Corps (body) du (of) message."
objEmail.Send
Wscript.quit
And run, without pb.
Other way : use MAPI application (essentially outlook-express, or outlook),
but the "default notion" is bad definition (why MAPI more than CDO or more
than Python-library ? )

Windows give sockets and applications use sockets, without priority.
Applications like yours, virus, trojan, anti-virus, python-scripts, etc.

-sorry for my poor english-

@-salutations
--
Michel Claveau
site : http://mclaveau.com

[Mark Hahn]

Re: win32com: create email message in windows default app?

[color=blue]
> But what is "windows default email application" ?[/color]

I don't know, except that windows applications such as outlook and outlook
express will ask "Outlook is no longer the default email application, would
you like to make it the default?". So somebody somewhere inside of windows
thinks there is a default.

Also, when you click on a mailto: link in a web browser, only one mail
message comes up from one mail application, so it must be the default email
application. How do I get to that default email application and tell it to
open a message for me?

[Syver Enstad]

Re: win32com: create email message in windows default app?

"News M Claveau /Hamster-P" <essai1@mci.loc al> writes:
[color=blue]
> Hi !
>
> But what is "windows default email application" ?[/color]

That is the application currently chosen as the mail application in
Internet Options / Programs. These settings will be used by any
application that is a Mapi client.

[color=blue]
> In windows, with WSH, you can write :
> Dim str,objEmail
> Set objEmail = CreateObject("C DO.Message")
> objEmail.From = "toto@titi. fr"
> objEmail.To = "tata@tutu. com"
> objEmail.Subjec t = "Msg-try"
> objEmail.Textbo dy = "Corps (body) du (of) message."
> objEmail.Send
> Wscript.quit[/color]

You should be equally able to use this with python. Just use
win32com.client instead:

Like this:

import win32com.client
objEmail = win32com.client .Dispatch('CDO. Message')
and so on.

That reason that this works is that CDO uses Mapi behind the scenes.


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