When sending an email from FileMaker with the Send Mail command using Outlook for Windows 7, the message is composed but FileMaker holds onto control and does not proceed until the email is sent or deleted.

My question is: Is this the normal expected behavior? On the Mac it generates the email in Mail, then the script continues leaving the composed email waiting to be sent.

Am I missing something obvious here? Is there a way to create a single email or multiple emails and leave them up for review and sending after the rest of the script has run?

I've come to the conclusion that when using the FileMaker Send Mail script step on Windows it calls a New Message process from Outlook. It appears that FileMaker is then responsible for completing that request before it can move on about it's business thus locking FileMaker down. That's what I gather with my limited understanding of Windows anyways.

I have found that I can get around this annoying behavior by using an Open URL script statement instead and using MAILTO. With that I can create a new message with a recipient, subject and body content and FileMaker does not get held up by the process.

What version FMP are you using? Only FMP 10.0v3 and later are certified for Windows 7.

Version 11 v2.

I've just hit the same problem with FMP11 on Windows 7.

Can't use the send mail option because I need to attach a PDf to the mail.

Very irritating! :

Brian

It looks like you can send a file using the MAILTO url scheme, but it is not part of the standard and so is probably pretty fragile.

The comments on this article discuss it, including the required syntax.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767737(VS.85).aspx

Kicked this idea around but it kept coming back with invalid parameter for the file reference - which I wasn't able to solve.

Ho-Hum

Brian