Emailing Via Other than Eudora or Claris

[SteveGriff]

With filemaker's facility to send e-mail, is there a way to have filemaker specify what e-mail application it uses other than eudora, Claris or the other approved email progs? for eg. to use Quickmail or Outlook?

Thanks in advance!

[Vaughan]

There is a post in the Resources forum that covers mailto with Open URL [].

[Kurt Knippel]

Use the "MailTo:" function with the Open URL script step. This should use the system default Mail program.

If you are saying that you would like to explicitly specify which program to use, I am not sure of a way to do that.

[SteveGriff]

Thanks for your reply! I got this working, which is fine, but one disadvantage it has over the send email function is that you cant append fields (we want to be able to send a customer a quote built with the database via email). One thought was maybe we could somehow save the quote from FM as a text file and attach it; or even insert it into the email body somehow? Which forum did you suggest for more on the mail to discussions? I could only see a few posts in the Resources forum which weren't relevant to this subject.

Another question we're trying to solve; if we create a quotation or an order for a customer, and then produce it, can you think of anyway we can lock the record, so that it can still be viewed and even duplicated, but its fields can't be amended? Purpose being that is needs to be an accurate reflection of what a customer has received for our auditing purposes.

Anyway grateful for any thought and advice you can offer!

SG.

[Deckbuilder]

REgard to locking info while being still viewable.

A clever workaround my wife has used is to create mirror field which are calculate field declared to be equal to the editable fields. Since calculate fields cannot be edited, the info is safe and yet (on another layout) the editable fields are present for manulipation.

Hope that helps.

[Vaughan]

Create a clc field that "builds up" all the text from other fields, and send this through the e-mail. The calc field would be start with

code:

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"mailto:" & email & ...

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