From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7326 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus with firefox Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 01:19:25 -0400 Organization: Charcoal Message-ID: References: <878xp5h66f.fsf@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: karl+usenet@charcoal.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147585274 24111 80.91.229.2 (14 May 2006 05:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 05:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 14 07:41:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ff9Lq-0000xZ-KU for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 07:41:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ff9Lq-0006Zk-0a for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 01:41:10 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!nn.andrew.cmu.edu!newsfeeder.srv.cs.cmu.edu!wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu!news.charcoal.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: betelnut.srv.cs.cmu.edu Original-X-Trace: wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu 1147584010 6443 128.2.206.166 (14 May 2006 05:20:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cs.cmu.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 05:20:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e; fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6 hR; Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) XEmacs/21.5-b26 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zJDmfVgQp2DT0wXE27iKaCPlrmE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77509 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7326 Archived-At: Gary Wessle writes: > how can I use gnus as a mail client to send mail when I click on a > link while browser in firefox? In GNOME Preferences -> More Prefs -> Preferred Applications, I set Mail Reader as "custom", using "gnus %s". Then the following script gives me the handling of mailto: links. #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/local/bin:"$PATH" if [ "$1" = "" ] ; then exec xemacs -geometry 90x40 -f gnus-init else if gnuclient -batch -eval t >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then exec gnuclient -batch -eval "(progn (gnus-url-mailto \"$1\") (set-buffer-modified-p nil))" else exec xemacs -geometry 90x40 \ -eval "(progn (require 'gnus-art) (gnus-url-mailto \"$1\") (font-lock-mode 1) (set-buffer-modified-p nil))" fi fi exec xmessage -center No XEmacs or gnuclient echo no xemacs, no gnuclient, no xmessage exit 1 As someone else observed, the "mozex" extension to FF should be able to handle this with "gnus %s" for mailto: handling.