IE's e-mail edit box access - possible?

[gsb]

I use IE's Outlook Express.
When composing an e-mail, an edit box w/ bottom tabs comes up.
http://www.fremontseattle.com/greg/editBox.gif

Is there a way to invoke and use this edit box (.dll?) from within an IE6 browser?

[brendandonhue]

No.

[gsb]

Oh well, thanks. Not the answer I wanted, but...

I once saw/tried an IE editor script that turns a form input box into an HTML editor. Very similar but generates code seemingly incompatible with some email clients. Is there any other such tools that y'all know of?

BTW: this is for a "mass [members only] emailer" for a local chamber of commerce. I'm trying to set up a general html form for them to edit/review their announcement e-mails and then e-mail them out via php mail.

[brendandonhue]

You could write your own page that generates the HTML code and use PHP to send the emails.

[gsb]

Well... Thanks much all.

Looking at the links confirms my lack of knowledge on the subject.
The idea of writing an editor of my own is daunting task at best. I'm too old and don't have enough years left to do such a thing. ;)

Thanks anyway.

I'm pursuing my alternative: Each user uses their own email client to compose broadcast messages as needed and mails them to a pseudo account that upon receipt simply resends the email to each recipient in the list. No need to re-invent the wheel.