Task Description

Send e-mail using the users preferred and configured mailer

Analysis

Both Gnome and KDE support opening the composer of the user's preferred e-mail application based on the mailto URL. The mailto syntax supports specifying To, CC, BCC, Subject, body text and attachments

Existing solutions

kfmclient exec mailto:bastian@kde.org

gnome-open mailto:bastian@kde.org

Recent SUSE versions include desktop-launch as described on http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-August/004489.html desktop-launch can be used to open mail URLs.

Proposed Solution

See xdg-email in the xdg-utils directory of the Portland CVS module.

See the MailTo method in DAPI, part of the Portland CVS module.

Known Problems

Although RFC2368 defines the mailto URL, the elements supported in mailto URLs by the linux desktops are not properly documented.

TaskEmail (last edited 2006-04-03 01:09:22 by WaldoBastian)

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