Hello,

I'm using Filemaker Pro 6 on Mac OS X (10.3.9).

I just switched from 9 to X.

I have a database called ROLODEX. In addition to phone numbers and
addresses, it has email addresses and web pages.

I've always used scripts within FMP to go to web pages and send
emails. I used Netscape Communicator as my emailer and Internet
Explorer as my browser.

Now that I'm in 10, I've been able to script going to a web page
(in Firefox). However, I haven't been able to script sending an
email. I've tried Thunderbird, Eudora and Mail.

Below is the script I used in System 9 with Netscape Communicator (the
general concept of this script doesn't work with any of the
previously listed 10 email applications). The script is embedded in a
field, which instructs FMP to copy the email address (field name is
"E1") and then open a message in the email program with that email
address in it:

"tell application ""Macintosh HD:Applications (Mac OS
9):INTERNET:Netscape Communicator™ Folder:Netscape Communicator™""
¶
OpenURL ""mailto:" & E1 & """¶
activate¶
end tell"

Do you have a script that is equivalent to this that will work with
either Thunderbird, Eudora or Mail?

I'd appreciate it if someone could help on this. I didn't want to
leave Netscape Communicator for a System 10 mail program until I got
this issue worked out.

Thanks!

Barbara

bfak (AT) erols (DOT) com wrote:

You may have grossed-out a lot of people by trying to use Applescript
and referencing a classic application by full path name. A simple "how
do I open a new email message from FMP?" would surely have received an
answer.

If that is really all you wanted to do, it's trivial. The following will
use your preferred email program, which you can set to anything you want.

The FMP script is just "open URL" [field value E1_MailTo], where
E1_MailTo is a FMP calculation field "mailto: " & E1

If you were actually trying to create a series of form letters, a
natural objective when working with a database, there are more
efficient ways to do this.