How do I open default mail client with file attachments in windows 10

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_{Sunday, June 30, 2019 9:10 AM}

Hello,

I need to be able to attach pictures to emails for an app I am building. I tried using mailto in powershell, as in, Start-Process "mailto:?body=some text&attachments=c:\users\igweo\celeste.png"; but this doesn't work.

Is there any way to do this. 

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_{Monday, July 1, 2019 6:48 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

The mailto protocol doesn't support an attachment option. 

If you want to access the default email client, you can use MAPI32.dll. There is an answer on Stack Overflow, The project link post by Alex is an sample to use MAPI.

Best regards,

Drake

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_{Monday, July 1, 2019 10:21 AM}

Thanks a lot