Comments on: Alternate to Sending Email Other Than Send Mail

By: Dempsey

Dempsey — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:15:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing your solution Jan

By: Jan L.F. Bos

Jan L.F. Bos — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:07:11 +0000

Have just found a solution working with Thunderbird:

From within Filemaker 9 persons individual record, with Thunderbird as my default email program, I wanted:

- have in the Filemaker record a button that would open in Thunderbird a new blank email, however
- also directly paste from that Filemaker record the email address in the “To:” field in Thunderbird

Solution:
- assume you already have in the record a field with the individuals email address, say “Email”
- create a new field, Type Calculation, say ”Email Thunderbird”
- the calculation to be “mailto:” & E Mail
- the calculation result to be Text
- Now create a script, say “Emailscript Thunderbird”
- Select URL open, select the Field ”Email Thunderbird” and either Yes/No dialogue
- Create a button and direct it to the script “Emailscript-Thunderbird”

By: Dempsey

Dempsey — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:23:34 +0000

Is thunderbird your default email client?

You could try doing Send Event Open “thunderbird -compose to=’address@provider.com”

By: Jan L.F. Bos

Jan L.F. Bos — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:15:48 +0000

I am still having problems with FM9: In FM7 I had a made an email button that opened Thunderbird and pasted the email adres from the Filemaker record directly in the TO: field. However with the mail or Url open function I cannot from within FM9 automatic paste the email adres in the To: field of Thunderbird. Any hint how to write such a script for Thunderbird?

By: aphealy

aphealy — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:53:06 +0000

This is a great tip for people who don’t want to be restricted to the default Filemaker mail clients, for example if you want to use Thunderbird in OS X instead of Mail. Many thanks!

By: Dempsey

Dempsey — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:23:54 +0000

Attachments can’t be sent using this method, that’s the downside.

MooPlug? A Mac version is planned eventually

By: Stephen J. Arpie

Stephen J. Arpie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:49:18 +0000

How does it handle attachments?
A mac version of MooCow would be nice