Re: [Evolution] Generating new email

[Tony Mobily <merc mobily com>]

Hello,


>       Yes.  It's simply that, from version 1.2 on, you have to drag the
> attachment to the HEADERS of the message you are composing.  Dragging it
> to the body of the message will just write out a useless URL to the
> object.  (file:///home/me/somefile.txt)  I believe there's a bug about
> it somewhere in bugzilla.

OK, no problem. I can't believe I didn't try it first...

> > Now, here is the hard one!
> >
> > I as wondering if there was any way in Evolution to generate new email
> > automatically through a script.
[...]
>       Yes.  You need to use mailto: urls.  Try something like this:
>
> evolution "mailto:someone somewhere net?subject=testing&cc=someoneelse"
>
> If you have XD2, check out how OpenOffice.org is configured to do this.

Ben, that worked *beautifully*. I can now very easily have a "generic"
attachment script (when I want to attach one or several files and mail
them to someone), AND a specific "revisions finished" script that puts
the email template in the body... I can't believe how easy it was to do
it!

Thank you so much,

Merc.