opening outlook with mailto from javascript (in html mode)

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Jim Mitchell

I like the abilith to use href=mailto:[email protected]?body=This is in the body

The problem is that I can not get the default e-mail tool (Outlook) to open
up in html format. It seems to only support plain text. If I do not add
the body part of the href, then it opens in the default format which for me
is html.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Jim
 
As I understand it, this is a limitation of the way Windows passes the
mailto: command to the default email program.
 
Mailto uses Simple MAPI, which doesn't do HTML. Therefore, one workaround would be not to use mailto but to script the actual creation of a mail mesage using Outlook objects.

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Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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