What's the easiest way to start default mail client with message

Question

I'm looking for the easiest way to open the system default mail client with a custom message.

Is there some way to make this OS independent?

Answer 1

You may use the Desktop class for this, it has a mail(URI) method.

Launches the mail composing window of the user default mail client, filling the message fields specified by a mailto: URI.

Here is an example :

        Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
        String message = "mailto:someuser@somedomain.com?subject=mySubject&body=someBody";
        URI uri = URI.create(message);
        try {
            desktop.mail(uri);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }