attaching file after opening default email client(Qt 4.4,Linux)

[avipachar]

yes, it is not working on windows for me too.
Any suggestions?

[jpujolf]

Have you checked that l_string contains no spaces ? Not tested, but you could try this :

QDesktopServices:openUrl(QUrl("mailto:test@test.com?subject=test&body="+l_string+"&attach=\"" + l_string + "\""));

QDesktopServices:openUrl(QUrl("mailto:test@test.com?subject=test&body="+l_string+"&attach=\"" + l_string + "\""));

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[avipachar]

Thanks for the suggestion.
But i am not ablw to attach a file even if i give the name of file.(VS2010)

Like this:
QDesktopServices:penUrl(QUrl("mailto:test@test.com?subject=test&bod y=hi&attach=agent_reporting.sln" ));

New mail is opened with subject and all but the file is not attached?

Please suggest why this is happening and what to do to attach the file?

Thanks
avinash

[ChrisW67]

On the Linux machine it was working by accident and not design.

The file is not attached because the mailto URL scheme does not specify "attach" as a special header like "body". You may specify any header defined in RFC 822, which includes the only other header guaranteed to be supported... "subject". You could try building a mime encoded multi-part body and encoding that into the "body" along with Content-Type and MIME-Version headers. No guarantees though, because the headers are not guaranteed, and URLs generally have an implementation-defined upper limit on their size that is too small for a decent attachment.


Some Windows mail clients accept a non-standard "attachment" header.

[vkn]

So does anybody succeeded in attaching file to the mail in Windows?

Can I have sample code that is working in Windows for file attachment. As I am facing the same problem in Windows.

Thanks in advance.

[ChrisW67]

As explained above, you cannot reliably use mailto: links. You can try any of the Windows-specific methods;

1. Simple Mapi (does not support HTML tags in the body)
2. Extended Mapi (Does support HTML tags)
3. CMC (Common Messaging Calls) Is a non-platform specific. When it is used on Windows it will access the MAPI properties.
4. MAPI Activex
5. CDO (Collaboration Data Objects).
6. Automating Outlook
7. and probably others

I would guess that CDO is worth the most investigation.