On 22/03/2010 14:28, King Simon-NFHD78 wrote:
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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 :-(
I used "mailto" in the past, but I need to attach log files, therefore I
switched to using simplemapi.py which works fine except with the newer
versions of Outlook (I know that Outlook included with Office 11 has a
problem, not sure about others).
Werner
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