[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the simplest way to launch the user's standard mail client from a > Python program is by creating a mailto: URL and launching the > webbrowser:
[... snip code ...] > But this method is limited: you cannot specify a file to be attached > to the mail. And I guess that there would be problems if the body text > is too complex. > Does somebody know about a better method? > It should be possible at least on Windows, since Acrobat Reader is > able to do it. I'm going to stick my neck out and say: I doubt if there's one recognised, approved method. That would require every email client to have a way of accepting a command which said "Open up a new email and put this, this, and this into that field, that space, and that attachment." The only thing I can think of which comes close is the mailto: protocol you refer to, but according to its RFC http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html the only fields allowed are headers and the special case of "body" which, as you point out, is hardly intended for embedded attachments. I would imagine that Acrobat must special case known email clients and probably won't work for some obscure client. Thunderbird, for example, seems (haven't tried it) to allow for an attachment: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html Doubtless Outlook has some equivalent mechanism. After that, you're down to looking at docs for Eudora, Pine, etc. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
