invoke user's standard mail client

[luc.saffre at gmail.com]

On May 4, 11:42 am, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> I'm going to stick my neck out and say: I doubt
> if there's one recognised, approved method. That
> would require every email client to have a way
> of accepting a command which said "Open up a new
> email and put this, this, and this into that field,
> that space, and that attachment."

Tim, I agree, but I hope that we are both wrong.

> I would imagine that Acrobat must special case
> known email clients and probably won't work for
> some obscure client. Thunderbird, for example,
> seems (haven't tried it) to allow for an attachment:
>
>    http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html
>
> Doubtless Outlook has some equivalent mechanism. After
> that, you're down to looking at docs for Eudora, Pine,
> etc.

That's what I plan to do if you are right. At least for Thunderbird
and Outlook...

Luc