Re: How to have 'mailto' (clicking addresses) open a new email in Gnus?

[Charles Philip Chan]

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

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