Re: Possible to make gnus handle mailto URLs with cc, subject and body?

["Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>]

Adam writes:

> In Firefox under Preferences → Applications I have "mailto" configured
> to run /home/asjo/bin/mailto-handler, like this:

To make it work in Chromium, you need a ".desktop"-file, and then you
need to configure xdg-mime to use it¹.

I created a file, /usr/share/applications/gnus.desktop, (based on
mutt.desktop) like this:

  [Desktop Entry]
  Categories=Office;Network;Email;
  Comment=Comprehensive Emacs based Mail User Agent
  Exec=/home/asjo/bin/mailto-handler %u
  Icon=Gnus
  Name=Gnus
  MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto;
  NoDisplay=false
  Terminal=false
  Type=Application

(Pointing to the tiny script calling browse-url-mail with emacsclient.)

And then ran this command:

  $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/mailto
  mutt.desktop

to see the current default, and then changed it:

  $ xdg-mime default gnus.desktop x-scheme-handler/mailto

Now clicking a mailto-link in Chromium opens an email in Gnus, with To,
Cc, Subject and Body filled in.


  Best regards,

    Adam


¹ Information found here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/06/msg00255.html
  after realizing that Chromium was running xdg-email.

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