Re: How to have 'mailto' (clicking addresses) open a new email in Gnus?

[Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>]

Dear Charles,

*excellent*, many thanks.

Marius

On Friday, August 10, 2012 9:13:48 PM UTC+2, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> Marius Hofert writes:
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> > Sometimes, email addresses on websites are links, which, when clicked,
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> > open a new email (with corresponding address) in the default email
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> > program. I figured out that Firefox has a setting (Preferences ->
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> > Applications -> mailto) but how can I set it to open a new email in
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> > Gnus?
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> You need a script and set Firefox's mailto handler to use it. For
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> example:
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> #!/bin/sh
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> mailaddr="`echo $1 | cut -d : -f 2`"
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> emacsclient -n --eval "(compose-mail-other-frame \"$mailaddr\" \"$2\")"
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> 
> Charles
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> 
> 
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