> To my surprise, I've received no answers from anyone > on how to get R:Base to > SEND an email, not just set one up, in Outlook > Express.
David: The issue is not so much using LAUNCH to send an email, but what program you would launch to do the sending. The mailto: tag, which is what I think you are thinking of in connection with Outlook is not the appropriate tool for automated emailing. For one thing, an email client is a pretty "heavy" application to use for such a light task. Secondly, whether it will even succeed depends on whether the user has installed and correctly configured an email client, and on the degree to which the email client supports the optional tags in mailto:. Also, the mailto: tag does not support auto-sent email. I think this is probably a good decision -- otherwise you might innocently click on a link at some web site and wind up sending out thousands of emails from your desktop under your account. There are a couple of ways to handle sending emails. One is to use some software that sits on a server somewhere and constantly polls a subdirectory for new files. Each new file is sent as an email (emails are just straight ASCII files with some special lines in the header to specify from, to, subject, etc). This solution doesn't require LAUNCH at all, since the mail router is always running on some machine. However, it does require the set up and maintenance of that software. The other way is to use a command line mailer that you fire off, giving it the name of a file or files whenever you have mail to send. This would be executed with the LAUNCH command and could probably be made "invisible" to the user. The Postie program that has been mentioned here seems to be inexpensive and feature rich. If it does not meet your needs and you can't find something that does, I'm always available to write utility programs like that. I have previously written a command line fax program for a client whose old DOS TSR fax program did not survive an operating system upgrade. Best, -- Larry Lustig __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
