Re: Calling Balsa from Openoffice and Mozilla

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 07/31/2003 08:03:01 AM, Timo Sivula wrote:
> > Is it possible to call Balsa from Openoffice or Mozilla in RedHat 9?
> I found that according to the OO mailing list archives Kmail can be  
> used trough a script. Could someone help me by writing a similar script  
> to enable Balsa to work with Openoffice? Same for Mozilla would be  
> nice, too!

The script will be basically identical.

kmail's --composer option corresponds to balsa's -m "" (open compose  
window with empty "to: field".

--attach option is same in balsa.

(I have not tested it but it seems obvious).

Please note that balsa accepts the URL syntax for the argument of -m  
option. It means you can write:

balsa -m "mailto:somebody@example.com?subject=test&cc=others@example.com";

Pawel
 
> Below the extract showing the Kmail script from the OO mailing list
> archives:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Thanks to the kind support of KDE developers, I have been able to use
> > kmail as
> > the external mail client in OpenOffice 1.0 (Linux).
> >
> > Those interested in using this feature should save the following  
> code:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # wrapper script to make KMail usable with Open Office
> > attachment=`echo $2 | sed -e "s/^\"attachment='\(.*\)'\"$/\1/"`
> > kmail --composer --attach "$attachment"
> >
> > The script is saved as oo-kmail-wrapper.sh. You must make it
> executable
> > (chmod
> > u+x) and then point to this file in the OpenOffice settings, instead
> of
> > pointing to kmail (see screenshot).
> >
> > A special thanks once again to the Kmail developers for their quick
> and
> > efficient support!
> 
> Timo