Re: how to make desktop app send email?

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 19:45, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:58:44AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > 
> >   gnome_url_show ("mailto:foo bar", &err);
> > 
> > 	would be better.
> 
> Still somewhat problematic given the non-uniformity of support for
> things like attachments, or unspecified recipients.  For example in
> gnumeric I kludge up an attempt to support 'File -> Send To'
> That will attempt to save the current content to a tmp file, and
> launch a mailer without a recipient with the file as an attachment.
> The evo syntax for that does not work with mutt or pine.
> 
> This is an area that needs work.

	Don't get me wrong - I agree mailto: sucks :-)

	I tried to get it to do useful things for me in Vino and gave up
concluding you can't hope for much more than
"mailto:jody novell com?Subject=blah&Body=blah" to work with all
mailers.

Cheers,
Mark.