From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15700 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Hofert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to have 'mailto' (clicking addresses) open a new email in Gnus? Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3a743fa6-9e26-4029-ac0b-deb441df30f9@googlegroups.com> References: <3400e3cc-f4d1-4050-8b71-9a88bf83bfdd@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344641320 16531 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2012 23:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: gnu.emacs.gnus@googlegroups.com Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 11 01:28:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SzydC-0003ML-JW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:28:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzydB-00043C-Qc for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:28:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36433) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Szyd8-000436-If for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Szyd6-0006hU-Eg for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f189.google.com ([209.85.214.189]:54882) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Szyd6-0006gI-9S for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: by obbun3 with SMTP id un3so5551315obb.6 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.52.90.129 with SMTP id bw1mr1307730vdb.13.1344641308908; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=217.162.130.156; posting-account=dsyhxQoAAABLzi0plWayNf56xCjInCn7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.162.130.156 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-IP: 217.162.130.156 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.214.189 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15700 Archived-At: Dear Charles, *excellent*, many thanks. Marius On Friday, August 10, 2012 9:13:48 PM UTC+2, Charles Philip Chan wrote: > Marius Hofert writes: > > > > > Sometimes, email addresses on websites are links, which, when clicked, > > > open a new email (with corresponding address) in the default email > > > program. I figured out that Firefox has a setting (Preferences -> > > > Applications -> mailto) but how can I set it to open a new email in > > > Gnus? > > > > You need a script and set Firefox's mailto handler to use it. For > > example: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > mailaddr="`echo $1 | cut -d : -f 2`" > > emacsclient -n --eval "(compose-mail-other-frame \"$mailaddr\" \"$2\")" > > > > Charles > > > > -- > > "I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of > > mice vs. trackballs...It was very silly." > > (By Matt Welsh)