Re: Send Bug Report is worse

[David Reitter]

On 3 Apr 2006, at 15:29, Jason Rumney wrote:

> David Reitter wrote:
> > Lennart Borgman proposed to do this on Windows systems. That's  
> > because apparently, long mailto:// URLs aren't supported well.  
> > Lennart, do you think we can be more specific here and only enable  
> > it when it's really needed, e.g. on old Windows installations?
> I don't think the need for this is limited to old installations.  
> Windows has a 1024 byte limit to command-lines in general AFAIK.

OK, the limitation is due to ShellExecute (which is what's obviously  
used on Windows, see `w32-shell-execute').

The mailto:// business in mailclient is a kludge, lacking a cross- 
platform API.

The correct way to send an e-mail on Windows would be the mail API  
("MAPI").
There is already an implementation of this available, even though  
goes through Visual Basic:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/w32-send-mapi.el

One could take such a piece of code and implement an interface on the  
C side to avoid the VB script. We could integrate that with  
mailclient, and everyone would be happy.