I was wondering if anybody has dealt with activex and what the alternatives are for other objects (i.e. activexobject("outlook.application") in javascript.

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You probably are aware of this already but the only browser that ActiveX objects work with is Internet Explorer. So many nasty things used to occur with them that I shunned ActiveX anything long ago.

Yea, however, it seems to be what I need. The only people running this app are on our local intranet. So the security can be changed for that site. Also everything is ssl. Also, everyone is using outlook so this solution works.

The actual issue is the mailto limitation. IE and chrome won't allow a mailto after 2000 characters. Other major browsers just truncate after about 2100 characters. Safari is the only one that seems to be fine, so Mac's are covered that way. Activex seems to be a satisfying workaround for our scenario. We cannot setup and work with our mail server because that would be too limiting. Basically we are generating the list of addresses and a subject and allow the end user to use outlooks full functionality. Going by the server would be limited. We have tried all sorts of alternatives, but we are limited. We do not have IIS on our server, and can't do many of the normal alternatives.

For other browsers, if the list is too long, it opens in excel where users can do a ctrl+a and copy into outlook, but we do have a working solution with activex in IE (windows) and safari's capabilities with mailto (Mac).