From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [david.reitter@gmail.com: mailclient.el - revised] Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:01:49 +0200 Message-ID: <42E8D73D.8060907@student.lu.se> References: <42E2DE0B.2050508@student.lu.se> <0D4BC441-B098-4EC2-BB15-227AA96FE100@gmail.com> <42E3A9AB.9040508@student.lu.se> <2DEF91C8-8F4D-4A57-9201-C233640481E9@gmail.com> <42E8CE85.7030105@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122556423 25043 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2005 13:13:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , emacs-devel ' Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 15:13:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy8Bc-00017x-CX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:12:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy8E4-0007ox-1m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy8DC-0007QI-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy8D8-0007ON-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy8D7-0007BG-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dy8CT-0003Rs-P8; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42BFBBD2004F1DF2; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:01:50 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: <42E8CE85.7030105@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41265 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41265 Jason Rumney wrote: > > MAPI is a proprietary API for proprietary mail clients on a > proprietary OS. It is not the "correct" way for anything. Free mail > clients such as Emacs, Mozilla Thunderbird and others are not > supported by MAPI. > > mailto: urls are an open standard. They can be made to work with any > mail client that has a command-line interface, even Emacs (see the > Emacs on Windows FAQ). If there are limitations with them on Windows, > then that is something that Windows users have to live with. What > Lennart suggested seems like a good comprimise, even if not ideal, but > itshould be conditioned on whether the user has customized > send-mail-function, since there is a high chance that Emacs will be > able to send mail (using smtpmail.el for example) if the user has > configured it to (this applies to Mac as well). This may be the case > already, I haven't studied the code you wrote. I did a search on the web and actually it looks like MAPI is supported by Thunderbird.