topic Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

jakob_holmquist — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:42:58 GMT

In this website it shows how to create a mail to a specific mail that includes but a subject and a body in the email by using HTML, and it works perfectly. When using basically the same code in autocad like this:

(command "start" "mailto:test@example.com?subject=TestSubject&body=TestBody!")

a mail is created with the correct receiver, correct subject, but the body is empty.

If I reverse the order of body and subject in the command like this

(command "start" "mailto:test@example.com?body=TestBody!&subject=TestSubject!")

then the body is included, but not the subject.

How can I include both subject and body at the same time?

I have searched for this and found solutions using visual lisp, but all those force the mail to be either closed or sent before you can do anything with either outlook or AutoCAD, and I want to avoid that functionality. If there is a way to make the visual lisp solution to not hijack both AutoCAD and Outlook that would work also.

Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

paullimapa — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:44:43 GMT

https://superuser.com/questions/914365/mailto-command-line-not-able-to-set-additional-parameters

(command "start" "mailto:test@example.com?subject=TestSubject^&body=TestBody!")

Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

paullimapa — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:48:14 GMT

**modified**

and for spaces use %20:

(command "start" "mailto:test@example.com?subject=Test%20Subject^&body=Test%20Body!")

Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

john.uhden — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 22:30:27 GMT

@paullimapa ,

Might there be any way to do that using Gmail?

Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

paullimapa — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 22:33:27 GMT

If your default email client app is configured to send/receive email with your gmail account then yes.

Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

john.uhden — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:23:53 GMT

@paullimapa ,

Thanks. I'll have to figure out how to do that.

Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

paullimapa — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:25:56 GMT

For example, I use Outlook as my desktop default email client.

Then I follow these instructions to setup my Outlook to connect to my gmail:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-up-gmail-accounts-46274497-95ea-4a7d-9651-d246aa63eb5e

Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

jakob_holmquist — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:18:39 GMT

Thank you, this was exactly what I was looking for! 🙂

Re: Sending mail via utolisp that includes both subject and body

paullimapa — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:45:52 GMT

Glad to have helped…cheers!!!