Rather use Outlook Express than Outlook?? (sometimes)

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Elmtree via AccessMonster.com

Is ther anyway to specify to use Outlook Express rather than Outlook when
emailing thru Access?
 
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Tony Toews [MVP]

Elmtree via AccessMonster.com said:
Is ther anyway to specify to use Outlook Express rather than Outlook when
emailing thru Access?

Not really. (I've just spent the last several weeks working on
various email options in the Auto FE Updater so I have thorough
knowledge of how the registry and such is working. <smile>)

Now if Outlook Express is the default email client then using the
sendto protocol will work very well and invoke the default email
client.

However chances are very good that if Outlook is installed it is
indeed the default email handler. There is no way, to my knowledge,
to explicitly tell OE to start up and handle the email.

There is automation VBA code which can do this for Outlook, GroupWise
and Lotus Notes explicitly whether they are the default email client
handler or not. It's quite possible that other email clients can be
worked via Automation. But not OE.

Hmm, now that I think about it what you could do is read the default
email client in the registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail, change it to
Outlook Express, use the sendto protocol to send your email and then
change it back. This all assumes your user has also configured
Outlook Express with their email account settings of course.

See the posting at
http://groups.google.ca/group/micro..._frm/thread/cf0ab3b7e4f78232/8542dd95bb6db4cd
for sample code on using the sendto method as well as Karl Petersons
reply to my reply to the above posting where he mentions the UrlEscape
code.

Tony
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Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
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Tony Toews [MVP]

Elmtree via AccessMonster.com said:
Is ther anyway to specify to use Outlook Express rather than Outlook when
emailing thru Access?

BTW why would you want to do this?

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
 

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