[draceplace]

I'm trying to write a bat file that will generate an email from any (Windows) OS Win98 and up. This works great in XP/2000 with MS Outlook but when I test on a Win98 box running MS Exchange the whole line of code (including the hex %% stuff) ends up in the "TO:" field.

It seems not to recognize the ? before the 'subject' parm. I've tried using an & and a ^& instead but same results.

START mailto:dan.mccracken@adem.state.ar.us?subject=ADEM%%20ePOP%%20Alert%%20Inst allation^&body=At%%20%DATE%,%%20%TIME%,%%20user%%20%USERNAME%

Is this a limitation of Exchange or is there something I can do to fix this problem??

Thanks for reading my post!!

[Rockn]

How are you using a batch file to send an email? Are you using telnet or some other utility in conjunction with DOS because the mailto command is not part of the DOS command line. Is this the Exchange mail client you are referring to that does not work?

[draceplace]

You can paste the code in my post into a .bat file and run it. If your running Outlook an email with TO: xxxx Subject: xxxx and a BODY: "At Wed" will be generated (I chopped the body for posting purposes). The "START" command initiates the mailto function in DOS? I'm starting to think the mailto for Exchange isn't as Robust Outlooks...