Sending Email using VC++ through Outlook Express

[Zulfi Khan]

I am using Outlook Express as a default Email program. How can I pop up OutLook Express Window to send an Email to a known address using a VC++
program. I have VC++5 Enterprise version and I am working in Windows NT environment.

See if this is what you want?

// First try ShellExecute()
HINSTANCE result = ShellExecute(NULL, _T("open"), "mailto:[email protected]", NULL,NULL, showcmd);

Outlook express actually implements a 'Simple MAPI' interface. If Outlook Express is configured as the default mail client, you can access it using SimpleMapi.

Hope that helps.
pj

[Zulfi Khan]

Hi,
It worked. Thanks for your help. Now can you tell how I can send a message stored in a buffer using Outlook Express? This time I dont want to pop up the Outlook Express window from my program.
Tnaks again.
Zulfi.

[Mustafa Saqib]

By setting the last parameter of ShellExecute function to SW_HIDE

But remember one thing that it is not neccessary ShellExecute will launch Outlook.
mailto: protocol launches default email program so if the users default email program is
Eudora, say, then I think Eudora will be launched
in place of Outlook.