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 14:55:38 +0200 Message-ID: <42E8D5CA.5030702@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> 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 1122555652 22484 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2005 13:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel ' Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 15:00:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy7zl-0007cd-MJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:00:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy81K-0001Hu-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy7zz-0000zo-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:00:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy7zt-0000z1-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dy7zs-0000vn-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dy86W-0002vg-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B93717005AEF1F; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:55:39 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Reitter In-Reply-To: <2DEF91C8-8F4D-4A57-9201-C233640481E9@gmail.com> 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:41262 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41262 David Reitter wrote: > I don't think placing data on the clipboard and asking the user to > copy it over would be the ideal solution. Using MAPI (instead of > mailclient) seems to be the correct way to do things on Windows. > The reason that I didn't propose mailclient as default on Win > originally was exactly what you said: I heard that the URL length is > limited, at least under certain circumstances. > > I guess it would be best to not use mailclient as default on Windows > and hope that someone (you?) will implement MAPI functionality... > If people use a variety of Win / a URL client that supports long > URLs, they can still set the send-mail-function to mailclient. I agree, but at the moment I feel that placing data on the clipboard is a good workaround. At the moment I do not have time to implement MAPI support and I do not even know if it is welcome. So I suggest that my workaround is adopted.