Call Entourage from within an application..

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msutfin

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I have an web application. One of the customer pages includes a link with an email address as a value.

When clicked, I'd like to pass this email address to Entourage (or even better, whatever the default email client might be, but I don't know how to determine this..) and have it open with the "TO" populated.

Perhaps someone has done this, or you could point me to some documentation or even another forum where I could research this..?

Regards
 
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Barry Wainwright

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I have an web application. One of the customer pages includes a link with an
email address as a value.

When clicked, I'd like to pass this email address to Entourage (or even
better, whatever the default email client might be, but I don't know how to
determine this..) and have it open with the "TO" populated.

Perhaps someone has done this, or you could point me to some documentation or
even another forum where I could research this..?

Regards
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the 'mailto' protocol within a web page is handled by the web browser
and will always (in every implementation I have ever seen) use the local
user's default email client. I don't believe there is (or should be) any
way for you to code a web page to make it fire up the application of
your choice on another users machine!
 
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