Create Outlook Object with Firefox

Question

Hi,

with ActiveX I can create an Outlook instance and start a new HTML e-Mail.

Here is the sample code:

var outlookApp = new ActiveXObject("Outlook.Application");

var nameSpace = outlookApp.getNameSpace("MAPI");

mailFolder = nameSpace.getDefaultFolder(6);

mailItem = mailFolder.Items.add('IPM.Note.FormA');

mailItem.Subject="a subject test";

mailItem.To = "[email protected]";

mailItem.HTMLBody = "<b>bold</b>";

mailItem.display (0);

Is there an equivalent for Firefox. For example with XPCom? Has anyone a sample please?

Thank you!

Answer 1

//this class emulates the one u used to use
function mailer() {
  this.display = function() {
    var url = 'mailto:'
                       + this.To
                       + '?subject=' + encodeURIComponent(this.Subject)
                       + '&body=' + encodeURIComponent(this.HTMLBody);
    window.location = url;
  }
}

//we instantiate
mailItem = new mailer();


//and then your old code: 
mailItem.Subject="a subject test";
mailItem.To = "[email protected]";
mailItem.HTMLBody = "<b>bold</b>";
mailItem.display (0);

What is being done here is using <a>'s mailto: similar approach:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=a+subject+test&body=%3Cb%3Ebold%3C/b%3E">email me!</a>