Re: how to make desktop app send email?

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

W liście z pią, 16-07-2004, godz. 03:55, Federico Mena Quintero pisze: 
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 12:58 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> 
> > I have a desktop app ("gnomtime", actually, gttr.sourceforge.net) with 
> > several free-text areas in it.  It like to be able to add a menu item
> > that says "email this".  Clicking on the menu would start the user's
> > favorite email client, push the text into it, and let them complete
> > the addressing from there, etc.
> > 
> > What's the best way of doing this?
> 
> Evolution provides two things for this:
> 
> - evolution mailto:foo bar com?subject=Hello World&body=Good bye&
> 
> - a CORBA interface for the composer
[snip]

Uhm, isn't there supposed to be mailto:// handler? This is very nice
crash course, but it's completely evolution specific.
AFAIR, way to open default handler is along the lines of 

g_spawn_command_line_async ("gnome-open mailto:foo bar", &err); 

right?

Cheers,
Maciej
 
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