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Old 01-05-2006, 04:26 PM
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Default Re: Character restrictions in IE while sending mail using Mailto

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Meenakshi wrote:
> I need to send a mail that requires more than 2000 character in the
> content of the mail. we r getting the javascript error when the content
> exceeds more than that.
>
> Current code :
>
> var doc = "mailto:......." - (the size of the conent is more than 2000
> char) window.location = doc;
>
> Alternative code i tried:
>
> <FORM Action="mailto:xyz" METHOD="get">
> mailto: protocol test:
> <Br>Subject:
> <INPUT name="Subject" value="Test Subject">
> <Br>Body:
> <TEXTAREA name="Body">
> kfdskfdksfkds
> </TEXTAREA>
> <BR>
> <INPUT type="submit" value="Submit">
> </FORM>
> the above code did not populated the body content for the post method.Only
> for the get method it is populating the content.
> but the problem is for the get method, again it fails for the above 2083
> characters.
>
> in some systems (but in most of the machine it is failing) post method
> sends the content as a attachement of the form
>
> Subject=Test Subject
> Body=kfdskfdksfkds
>
> but i need the content to be populated in the body of the mail. instead of
> attachment. I are facing this issue in IE and we need a solution for this
> in IE 6.0.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427/
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=279460
> I refered the above sites for this issue. we could not find any solution
>
> Please let me know if i can do this using IE 6 in any way using the same
> mailto but without the 2083 character restriction.


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