How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Marius Hofert]

Hi,

When I click a "mailto-link" in google-chrome (on Ubuntu 12.10), thunderbird
pops up as default application. I was wondering if one can do something similar
as in the answer on

,----
| http://askubuntu.com/questions/40004/changing-email-application-in-preferred-applications-to-gmail
`----

for setting up Gnus as default mailto-application under Ubuntu (?)

Cheers,

Marius

Re: How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Ashish SHUKLA]

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Marius Hofert writes:
> Hi,

> When I click a "mailto-link" in google-chrome (on Ubuntu 12.10), thunderbird
> pops up as default application. I was wondering if one can do something similar
> as in the answer on

> ,----
> | http://askubuntu.com/questions/40004/changing-email-application-in-preferred-applications-to-gmail
> `----

> for setting up Gnus as default mailto-application under Ubuntu (?)

A proof-of-concept shell script like following should do the basic job, and
ofcourse it requires an Emacs instance running:

#v+
#!/bin/sh

ARG="$1"

if [ -z "$ARG" ]; then exit 0; fi

RECIPIENT=$(echo $ARG |sed -r -n -e '/^mailto:/s/^mailto:([^@]+@[[:alnum:].-]+).*$/\1/gp')
SUBJECT="$(echo $ARG |sed -r -n -e '/^mailto:/s/^mailto:[^@]+@[[:alnum:].-]+[?].*&?subject=([^&]+).*$/\1/gp')"

emacsclient -e '(progn (gnus-group-mail) (message-goto-to) (insert "'$RECIPIENT'") (message-goto-subject) (insert "'"$SUBJECT"'") (message-goto-body))'
#v-

If you prefer messages to be opened in new window then
s/emacsclient/emacsclient -c/.

HTH
-- 
Ashish SHUKLA

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(Hudson Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, 1893)

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Re: How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Marius Hofert]

Hi Ashish,

Thanks a lot for helping.

How can I use the script?

google-chrome -> Settings -> Privacy -> Content settings... -> Handlers ->
Manage handlers... somehow does not allow to add scripts.

Cheers,

Marius

Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> writes:

> Marius Hofert writes:
>> Hi,
>
>> When I click a "mailto-link" in google-chrome (on Ubuntu 12.10), thunderbird
>> pops up as default application. I was wondering if one can do something similar
>> as in the answer on
>
>> ,----
>> | http://askubuntu.com/questions/40004/changing-email-application-in-preferred-applications-to-gmail
>> `----
>
>> for setting up Gnus as default mailto-application under Ubuntu (?)
>
> A proof-of-concept shell script like following should do the basic job, and
> ofcourse it requires an Emacs instance running:
>
> #v+
> #!/bin/sh
>
> ARG="$1"
>
> if [ -z "$ARG" ]; then exit 0; fi
>
> RECIPIENT=$(echo $ARG |sed -r -n -e '/^mailto:/s/^mailto:([^@]+@[[:alnum:].-]+).*$/\1/gp')
> SUBJECT="$(echo $ARG |sed -r -n -e '/^mailto:/s/^mailto:[^@]+@[[:alnum:].-]+[?].*&?subject=([^&]+).*$/\1/gp')"
>
> emacsclient -e '(progn (gnus-group-mail) (message-goto-to) (insert "'$RECIPIENT'") (message-goto-subject) (insert "'"$SUBJECT"'") (message-goto-body))'
> #v-
>
> If you prefer messages to be opened in new window then
> s/emacsclient/emacsclient -c/.
>
> HTH

Re: How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Ashish SHUKLA]

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Marius Hofert writes:
> Hi Ashish,

> Thanks a lot for helping.

> How can I use the script?

> google-chrome -> Settings -> Privacy -> Content settings... -> Handlers ->
> Manage handlers... somehow does not allow to add scripts.

> Cheers,

> Marius

I didn't look at the link you provided. I tested it with firefox, when I click
on 'mailto:' link it asks me which application i would like to open this
'mailto:' link with, and there I specified the path to my script.

HTH
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against the whole world, you were not mad.” (George Orwell, "Nineteen
Eighty-Four", 1949)

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Re: How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Marius Hofert]

... Firefox is comparably easy, yes :-)


Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> writes:

> Marius Hofert writes:
>> Hi Ashish,
>
>> Thanks a lot for helping.
>
>> How can I use the script?
>
>> google-chrome -> Settings -> Privacy -> Content settings... -> Handlers ->
>> Manage handlers... somehow does not allow to add scripts.
>
>> Cheers,
>
>> Marius
>
> I didn't look at the link you provided. I tested it with firefox, when I click
> on 'mailto:' link it asks me which application i would like to open this
> 'mailto:' link with, and there I specified the path to my script.
>
> HTH

Re: How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Teemu Likonen]

Marius Hofert [2013-01-31 19:40:52 +0100] wrote:

> When I click a "mailto-link" in google-chrome (on Ubuntu 12.10),
> thunderbird pops up as default application. I was wondering if one can
> do something similar [...] for setting up Gnus as default
> mailto-application under Ubuntu (?)

See:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MailtoHandler

Re: How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Marius Hofert]

Can you be a bit more specific (for a newbie), please?

The page says:

,----
| Configure your web browser and operating system so that the script is the default email application
`----

As I wrote, it is not clear to me, how I can tell google-chrome to accept a
script. 

Concerning Ubuntu, the only two choices for default mail apps are thunderbird
and Kmail (see System Settings -> Details -> Default Applications). I tried to
figure out how to change that and the only way I found works via editing
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. But what have to be the entries?
(x-scheme-handler/mailto=gnus (?)).

Cheers,

Marius


Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Marius Hofert [2013-01-31 19:40:52 +0100] wrote:
>
>> When I click a "mailto-link" in google-chrome (on Ubuntu 12.10),
>> thunderbird pops up as default application. I was wondering if one can
>> do something similar [...] for setting up Gnus as default
>> mailto-application under Ubuntu (?)
>
> See:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MailtoHandler

Re: How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Can you be a bit more specific (for a newbie), please?
>
> The page says:
>
> ,----
> | Configure your web browser and operating system so that the script is the default email application
> `----
>
> As I wrote, it is not clear to me, how I can tell google-chrome to accept a
> script. 
Don't know for google-chrome, but for firefox, it is possible, see
https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki#wiki-firefoxbookmarks

It is the same for gnus, with this script instead:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/bin/bash

wmctrl -xa emacs
if [ -n $1 ]; then
    emacsclient -e "(message-mail (substring \"$1\" 7))"
else
    emacsclient -e "(message-mail)"
fi
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


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Re: How to set up Gnus as default mailto application in Ubuntu?

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Feb 01 2013, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

>     emacsclient -e "(message-mail (substring \"$1\" 7))"

      emacsclient -n --eval "(browse-url \"$@\")"


`browse-url' handles parameters like subject and body correctly.

Bye, Reiner.
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