Email Question

Hi

I tried the following code listed under VB-World Internet Programming. It seems to place all the input(To:, Subject: and Body: ) in the To: field...

Any Ideas??

Thanks

Gregg




Call SendMail("[email protected]", "Overdue Payment", _
"Your current bill is: $105.09. Pay up!", _
"[email protected]", "[email protected]")

CODE:

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, _
ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory _
As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long

Private Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

Public Sub SendMail(Optional Address As String, _
Optional Subject As String, Optional Body As String, _
Optional CC As String, Optional BCC As String)

Dim strCommand As String

'Build up the mail string
If Len(Subject) Then strCommand = "&Subject=" & Subject
If Len(Body) Then strCommand = strCommand & "&Body=" & Body
If Len(CC) Then strCommand = strCommand & "&CC=" & CC
If Len(BCC) Then strCommand = strCommand & "&BCC=" & BCC

'Replace the first ampersand, if any,
'with a question mark
If Len(strCommand) Then
Mid(strCommand, 1, 1) = "?"
End If

'Add mailto: command and main e-mail
'address to the command string
strCommand = "mailto:" & Address & strCommand

'Execute command via the API
Call ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, "open", strCommand, _
vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOWNORMAL)

End Sub

The code works on my computer. No problems at all.

What mail program does is open when you run the program ?

Also is it possible to go one step further and send the mail automatically?

I use Outlook 2000. But I know that it works with Outlook Express as well.
If you want to send e-mail you could have a look at the MAPI controls.