Re: [Evolution] Command-line calls for Evolution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 20:52, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've waded through a few months' worth of list archives and have not found quite what I'm looking 
> for...namely, a way to use a command-line string so Evolution brings up an unaddressed e-mail form and 
> attaches a file to it.
>
> Background: I'm using Star Office, which, like MS Word, has a send-file function. Yet when SO6's options 
> are altered to use Evolution as the mail client, SO6 doesn't seem to want to do anything more than activate 
> Evolution's main desktop. 
>
> Sylpheed users ran into the same problem. As a workaround, someone wrote a Perl script to use as a 
> substitute for Sylpheed's activation command in SO6's tool=>options=>email entry. The script takes 
> advantage of Sylpheed's command-line call,   >sylpheed --attach . I was hoping to do something similar with 
> Evolution, but the man page lists only two command-line examples: one for bringing up an email when an 
> addressee is specified; and one for activating Evolution and having it start with the Inbox. Is that the 
> complete catalog of command-line calls? Or are others listed elsewhere?

Eventually there will be a way to attach documents via the mailto:
command-line argument

something like:

evolution mailto:fejj ximian com?subject=hello&attach=file.doc

Jeff

PS: Can you 1) tell your mail client to properly word-wrap (~72 columns
or so)? And 2) properly attach a signature (ie, use "-- \n" as a
separator)? Thanks.

-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com