* Invoking gnus as mail agent from opera
@ 2002-05-29 14:18 Christian Lemburg
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From: Christian Lemburg @ 2002-05-29 14:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
Since I did not find anything on how to invoke gnus as mail agent from
opera (for mailto links), I decided to post my solution for the next
person having this problem.
Sketch of the idea: opera invokes a perl wrapper script that
interpolates the mailto address into a call to gnuclient with a small
lisp helper function. Gnus is assumed to be already running.
Pieces:
1) my-mailto-handler.el:
(defun my-mailto-handler (mail-address)
"Compose new mail, using MAIL-ADDRESS given"
(gnus-group-mail)
(message-goto-to)
(insert mail-address)
(message-goto-body))
2) gnus-mailto.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# small perl script for invoking gnus from opera on mailto: Urls
# author: Christian Lemburg <lemburg@aixonix.de>
# version: $Id: gnus-mailto.pl,v 1.1 2002/05/29 11:40:00 lemburg Exp $
# --------------------------------------------------
# setup
# --------------------------------------------------
# command to invoke emacs
my $emacs_command = "gnuclient";
# function to handle mailto URL taking email address as only argument
my $mailto_handler_function = "my-mailto-handler";
# email address to send mail to - the mailto argument from opera
my $email_address = $ARGV[0];
# --------------------------------------------------
# action
# --------------------------------------------------
# like: gnuclient -eval '(my-mailto-handler "try@bla")'
system($emacs_command, "-eval", qq{($mailto_handler_function "$email_address")});
3) opera preferences setting in Applications - Email Client:
gnus-mailto.pl
--
Christian Lemburg, <lemburg@aixonix.de>, http://www.clemburg.com/
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
-- Olivier
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