Re: [david.reitter@gmail.com: mailclient.el - revised]

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

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.