bcc email

[John Harris]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to send to a blind address from FM, eventually this will be runtime and crossplatform.

[andygaunt]

a 'BBC' email. Is this sent to all 'ITV' contacts ???

[John Harris]

Funny ! So it was late and I can't tpye ! Any better suggestions ?

[andygaunt]

I was just having some fun. I shouldn't say 'still can't then!'

Have you looked into plug-ins.

SMTPit from community networking www.cnsplug-ins.com will allow you to send emails 'direct' from FileMaker (including BCC)

HTH

[John Harris]

Thanks

So there is no way of sending an email with a blind address via outlook or entourage, to the BBC or anyone else from filemaker. Wanted to be able to make runtime version which would work with users default mail client.

soory about the speelling.

[andygaunt]

You 'may' (not sure, but possibly) be able to do this via the open url script line.

You can use this to send mail (sometimes used for getting around issues on the mac)

i.e.

mailto:[email protected]?subject=Enter subject?body=enterbody of email

I am not sure if you can add in cc or bcc here.

[Pupiweb]

AFAIK the mailto protocol supports CC but not BCC emailing

Definitely go for a plugin or a mix of AppleScript/VB script

[John Harris]

Just to say that the url email really nearly works, a script line

insert calculation

"mailto:" & Email_Main & "?Bcc=" & H_Email2

does work, with apple mail.

However mailto:"mailto:" & Email Main & "?Bcc=" & H_Email2 & "?subject=BlahTest" & "?body=Blah or field"

doesn't work as it puts the subject in the Bcc line, with apple mail, it does work fine with MS Entourage !

I assume if I create a comma seperated list I can email a group of people, haven't tried that yet.

Just to say thanks and let anyone else who cares, know it's possible.