Question:
I am trying to send e-mail from my PowerBuilder app to an e-mail address that is not in my address book; it’s an Internet e-mail address. I do not have any trouble sending e-mail inside the company.

We use GroupWise and I tried adding “GWIA:” to the beginning of the address, which lets us send e-mail to addresses outside the company, but that did not help.

Can you give me any suggestions?

Answer:
The easiest way is to use the ShellExecute function and execute the mailto command. Declare the following API call:

 FUNCTION long ShellExecuteA( long hWnd, REF String ls_Operation,    REF String ls_File, REF String ls_Parameters, REF String    ls_Directory, INT nShowCmd ) library 'shell32'

Then add the following PowerScript:

 String ls_Command, ls_Dir, ls_Args, ls_URLSetPointer( HourGlass! )ls_Command = "open"ls_Dir = ""ls_Args = ""ls_URL = 'mailto:[email protected]'ShellExecuteA( 0, ls_Command, ls_URL, ls_Args, ls_Dir, 5 )

Unfortunately, there’s no way to send this mail automatically. You could try using MAPI if you have a MAPI-compatible mail client such as Outlook available. As far as I know, GroupWise is not MAPI-compatible, but it’s been a long time since I’ve used it.