Help with invoking standard mail app in windows

[Kev Dwyer]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:36:32 +1100, Astan Chee wrote:

> Kev Dwyer wrote:
>> Hello Astan,
>>
>> Your code executes without error for me on Win98 (!) with Python 2.5 or
>> XP with Python 2.6.
>>
>> It would help people to help you if you could provide the *exact*
>> console output from when you try to execute the code, *including* the
>> traceback. That way we can work out which line of code is hitting the
>> exception.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Kev
>>
>>
> Hi,
> My mistake. The length of body is over 1400 characters. Here is my
> updated code and result:
> 
> import urllib, webbrowser, win32api
> def mailto_url(to=None,subject=None,body=None,cc=None):
>     """
>     encodes the content as a mailto link as described on
>     http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html """ url = "mailto: " +
>     urllib.quote(to.strip(),"@,") sep = "?"
>     if cc:
>         url+= sep + "cc=" + urllib.quote(cc,"@,") sep = "&"
>     if subject:
>         url+= sep + "subject=" + urllib.quote(subject,"") sep = "&"
>     if body:
>         # Also note that line breaks in the body of a message MUST be #
>         encoded with "%0D%0A". (RFC 2368)
>         body="\r\n".join(body.splitlines())
>         url+= sep + "body=" + urllib.quote(body,"") sep = "&"
>     return url
> 
> txtTo = "test at com.com"
> txtSubject = "Test Subject"
> body = "Test body"
> for t in range(278):
>     body+="test "
> txtCC = "cc_test at com.com"
> 
> url = mailto_url(txtTo,txtSubject,body,txtCC)
> #win32api.ShellExecute(0,'open',url,None,None,0)
> webbrowser.open(url,new=1)
> # os.startfile(url)
> 
> result:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:/stanc_home/python/mail_test.py", line 32, in <module>
>     webbrowser.open(url,new=1)
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\webbrowser.py", line 61, in open
>     if browser.open(url, new, autoraise):
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\webbrowser.py", line 518, in open
>     os.startfile(url)
> WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'mailto:
> test at com.com?cc=cc_test at com.com&subject=Test%20Subject&body=Test%
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> 
> Is there some sort of limitation here? If I shorten the string, it works
> fine. You're right, but I'm wondering if there is a way to go around
> this limitation.
> Thanks again
> Cheers
> Astan

Hmmm.

For me, body < 1400 opens an outlook message form, body > 1400 opens IE7.

No time to look into this right now, but perhaps this is a windows thing.

Don't know why you get windowserror, perhaps permissions???

I'll try and look again later/tomorrow.

Cheers,

Kev