> -----Original Message----- > From: python-win32-bounces+simon.king=motorola....@python.org > [mailto:python-win32-bounces+simon.king=motorola....@python.or > g] On Behalf Of pyt...@bdurham.com > Sent: 22 March 2010 13:11 > To: Werner F. Bruhin; zz Python Win32 Newsgroup > Subject: Re: [python-win32] MAPI with win32com > > Werner, > > I'm not sure I understand the benefit of being locked into the > proprietary and awkward MAPI protocol? > > Why can't you use industry standard SMTP to send your > messages? Simpler > and more portable. > > Malcolm >
I can't speak for Werner, but I recently had a request from a user of my application for an 'email this project' button on the toolbar, which would create an email message, attach the current project to it, and then allow the user to edit the message body itself. If I use SMTP, I need the user to enter all the SMTP configuration details (host, username, password, TLS etc). The email won't end up in his "Sent Items" folder. He probably won't be able to use Rich Text or HTML in the email (of course, you could argue that that is a good thing :-) Unfortunately, popping up an Outlook window with the file already attached is just a better user experience. I would love it if there were a way to do this that worked in the user's preferred mail client. If it were cross-platform, that would be even better. At the moment I use 'mailto:' URLs with os.startfile on Windows, and /usr/bin/open on the Mac. These work for opening an email with the To, Subject and message body already filled in, but I don't think there's any way I can attach a file like that. It also doesn't work if the message body is too long, presumably because of command-line length restrictions :-( Simon _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
