How to launch default Emailer?

[bona]

How can I launch default emailer from my application and attach a file to Email message?
I used code, passing as a parameter string ‘mailto:[email protected]’

Dim myproc As System.Diagnostics.Process
myproc = New System.Diagnostics.Process()
Dim s As System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo

myproc.EnableRaisingEvents = False

myproc.Start(strRecepient)

Is there another way of doing that?

[dynamic_sysop]

have you tried using the System.Web ? you can add a reference to it through " Project , Add Reference " , then you can send your mail with attachments like this...

Dim mailclient As New Web.Mail.MailMessage()
        Dim mailAttachment As New Web.Mail.MailAttachment("C:\some file")
        With mailclient
            .To = "[email protected]"
            .From = "Me@here"
            .Subject = "the subject"
            .BodyFormat = Web.Mail.MailFormat.Text
            .Body = "some message from me to someone"
            .Attachments.Add(mailAttachment)
        End With
 
        Dim mailServer As Web.Mail.SmtpMail
        mailServer.SmtpServer = "some server eg: hotmail.com"
        mailServer.Send(mailclient)

[bona]

Thanks sysop for your suggestion, but I am using Windows Form project. The reference to Web.Mail.MailMessage is not working there.

[RichardAtherton]

no all you have to do is to add the system.web.mail to your project, then it will work, irrespective of whether this is a windows or web application.

in your applicattion first of all
use the project add refence to add the system.web.services

then in your form use:

Imports System.web.mail

before or after the Public Class or End Class statement, add the import statement

Imports System.web.mail

then in the body of your code:

dim m1 as new mailmessage
' set your own parameters
' use:
Smtpmail.send(m1)

thats it, it will work, the only thing is that when you send the message, if your are not currently connected to the internet, it will give you a warning that you are not connected.

[RichardAtherton]

follow up, smptp automatically refers to your default emailer

[bona]

Thanks, Richard. Now it is working. It sends Emails from an application, but what I really need, it just open default Emailer, eg MS Outlook, or Outlook Express, attach a file to it, and after that it is up to the user to type a message, and send it manually.

[dynamic_sysop]

if you want to launch the default mailer and add an attachment, maybe this link will help...
Add Attachments to outlook.

[bona]

I downloaded and will give it a trial. The main disadvantage: it targets only Outlook Express, but I need that it works for any Emailer which is set as default at a PC.
I use another approach: MAPI controls from VB6, MAPIMessages and MAPI session. They also have one drawback: the Email message creates at the same thread, so the application is frothen until the user will send, save or delete a message. If create a separate thread for each new Email, then in the case of closing the main form, all pending Email messages are closed as well. So I have several choices to select the best approach.