Vista - Running mailto from powershell

I use the following command to have the default email program create an email:

start mailto:jasonm@charlesjones.com

I have been unable to use this in Powershell. Do you know any paths or
things that need to be added to my profile to use this?

If you install the PSCX you can do this no problem as its include a CMDLet
called Start-Process and sets and Alias start.

If you dont want to install that snap-in you can add this function and alias
it

function Start-Process {
Param([string]$Filename,[string]$ArgumentString =
[System.String]::Empty)
$si = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$si.Filename = $Filename;
if($ArgumentString){$si.Arguments = $ArgumentString};
$si.Filename, $si.Arguments;
[System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($si);
}
Set-Alias start Start-Process

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"JMinahan" <JMinahan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5C5D750D-DDFF-4748-A6C3-3E72BC416AAA@microsoft.com...
>I use the following command to have the default email program create an
>email:
>
> start mailto:jasonm@charlesjones.com
>
> I have been unable to use this in Powershell. Do you know any paths or
> things that need to be added to my profile to use this?
>

On Mar 6, 10:10 am, JMinahan <JMina...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I use the following command to have the default email program create an email:
>
> start mailto:jas...@charlesjones.com
>
> I have been unable to use this in Powershell. Do you know any paths or
> things that need to be added to my profile to use this?

Another option for you, should you decide you want to mail directly
from PowerShell instead of starting up a separate attended process:

NetCmdlets: http://geekswithblogs.net/lance/arch...28/107539.aspx

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