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Thanks for the explanation. I've been using the & in HTML forever and I
never new.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Start New Outlook Email From iSeries.


> The part that I can't get to work is to pre-fill the subject. 
> mailto:someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=test works when it is typed into 
> the browser address, but not when I use "Start 
> mailto:someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=test"; from dos or STRPCCMD.

That's because the "&" character has a special purpose on a DOS prompt. 
But, frankly, you don't want to use "&" here, anyway. You want to use a 
question mark to separate the URI from it's parameters.

The following works just fine for me:

PGM
    STRPCO
    MONMSG IWS4010
    STRPCCMD  PCCMD('start mailto:someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=test') +
              PAUSE(*NO)
ENDPGM

> I only get the email address but the subject is blank and a message
> telling me that subject is not recognized as a valid internal or
> external command.

Yep, that's because the "&" character is being treated specially. So
what 
you end up with is two commands... one that starts the mail client, and 
another that consists of "subject=test" which isn't a valid command. 
Change it to "?" and it should work (as above)

> Maybe I missed this, but is there a reason you are not using the
> emailing capabilities of the iSeries?

Yep, that would be much, much smarter.

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