Mailto: "Need line breaks in body"

[Chad Dittmer]

I'd appreciate anyone's help with this. I'm trying to open an email
window and have it auto fill from vb.net. It works, except I can't
get line breaks in the body. I've tried:
vbLf
vbCrLf
Environment.NewLine
sendkeys
<br>
and multiple "&body="
Nothing happens with the above.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("mailto:" &
Trim(IIf(IsDBNull(dr("Email")), "", dr("Email"))) & "?subject=Pick
Up&body=" & strBody)

Thanks

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

window and have it auto fill from vb.net. It works, except I can't
get line breaks in the body. I've tried:
vbLf
vbCrLf
Environment.NewLine
sendkeys
<br>
and multiple "&body="
Nothing happens with the above.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("mailto:" &
Trim(IIf(IsDBNull(dr("Email")), "", dr("Email"))) & "?subject=Pick
Up&body=" & strBody)

Notice that the URL needs to be URL encoded. I didn't test if this works
with embedded newlines with news clients properly...

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