Easy way to invoke standard mail client from c++ with recipient adress and subject?

Question

The answer from TcKs gave me an idea, thus i tried following:

system("mailto:[email protected]?subject=Test");

and

    STARTUPINFO info = {sizeof(info)};
    PROCESS_INFORMATION processInfo = {0};
    if (!::CreateProcess(NULL, "mailto:[email protected]",
        NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &info, &processInfo))
    {
        MessageBox("Couldn't invoke Standard Mail Client");
        return;
    }

But neither the first nor the second form did work. Do you have any simple solution?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try the ShellExecute function: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224816