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: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:19:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <090B076C-712C-42BD-B1F6-3B48F0C0C61C@gmail.com> <084ECF66-40BA-4A07-B8CE-9A148F4FC357@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271287231 3761 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 23:20:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jeff Clough , christian.lynbech@tieto.com, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 01:20:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2Bsj-00072L-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2Bsi-0007jb-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O2Bsc-0007iS-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:20:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40812 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2BsZ-0007gQ-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2BsX-0005MY-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:58329) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2BsX-0005Lz-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so387071fga.12 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:20:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:received:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=29jNLv6JW93Lt31kMupkNb1uMzK3Svav6QrmnvoBmzM=; b=g2yfy0MAJvJVOMnkzVaFKZcxaMyR8mrXnJgOkhI2SDUtKK8Rd4f3KbSZkLWBB5brtf nEkFNa8PvXDRyntByDNd4OhD+H78R7pCIRHdLwfJIDgKHwO5sTeG/5kAqmyjtYV2fSeJ e1B8OCy7Gd3nzsuu9BjvBkKyRX3VKS5oMfdh4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=H8c+S89gtJR+HcTxZ5I+8oRvtJaTfnMNgitVE2AQ06yosib/9k6UnIeVusyw0+2P3n ai8UTMF4CMmxo8TFqrMs5y57msVHg6sr73fe036KKDxU2npJW6vlyaKJDPHM2dK4C6oz lEGFVaq1gi19ExJgemQuKbzFXMCiED5yj7BHE= Original-Received: by 10.239.169.18 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:19:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <084ECF66-40BA-4A07-B8CE-9A148F4FC357@gmail.com> Original-Received: by 10.239.134.80 with SMTP id 16mr468632hby.117.1271287216143; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:20:16 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:123672 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:46 PM, David Reitter wr= ote: > On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Jeff Clough wrote: >> >> So it throws a mailto: URL at the OS and the OS is responsible for >> invoking the associated application? =C2=A0If that is true, then that is= very >> cool. > > Yup. > > It should really work like that on GNU/Linux as well; but we can't rely o= n the middleware to do this there - someone please correct me if that's wro= ng. I think this will not work very well in some cases for those using web mail. For some of those I believe mailto:-links only works from within the browser. (At least that is what I see on w32 with gmail.) A solution to this is writing a temporary html file. This could also include more instructions, something like this: Bug Mail Sender for Emacs

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