URL opening a new email

[scottb2]

I'm entering the following URL from IE:

mailto:[email protected][email protected]&subject=this%20is%20a%20subject&body=this%20is%20a%20body&attachment=c:\t.txt

This brings up a new Outlook email with To, Cc, Subject, and bod
filled in. Specifying "&bcc=" also works. Unfortunately, th
attachment parameter is ignored. "c:\t.txt" exists. (I'm using Outloo
2003 at work. I've also tried this using Outlook Express.) We'v
already tried various flavors of quoting and escaping the quotes bu
using a quote at all causes an error. Is there a way to issue a mailt
URL that will automatically attach a file to the new email?

Thanks,
Scot

 

[JP]

I browsed a few sites that explain how to use "mailto" and could not
find any documentation for a parameter called "attachment". I couldn't
even find it in the RFC for mailto (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
rfc2368.html). I suspect that is because you cannot do it. Do you have
any links to support the "attachment" parameter?

You *could* try embedding a link in the body text, but that would
require that the file be in a location accessible to both you and your
recipients.

--JP

 

[scottb2]

RFC 2368 can be found here -
http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/html/rfc2368.html

RFC 1738 can be found here - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html

The "Community Content" part of
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767737(VS.85).aspx mentions
the "attachment" parameter for Outlook 2003. You're right, though, that
it doesn't seem to be anywhere else, which is the reason for the
question.

Scott