Re: [Evolution] Hacking a PERL script so Evolution picks up files from Open Office

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

do something like

evolution mailto:foo bar?attach=/path/to/attach&subject=subject&attach=attachment2

etc.

You have to use url encoding as appropriate i think

n Wed, 2003-03-19 at 23:38, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
>
> After checking man evolution and evolution help I come grovelling:
>
> Is there a command-line argument that will get evolution to bring up a
> fresh email composer window with a file automatically attached? In
> scanning the patch site for Sylpheed (sorry), I noticed someone had
> designed a PERL script to run from within Open Office that gets the
> "File=>Send as email" function to work with something other than
> Netscape. Since the script's author suggests altering line 29 to reflect
> a user's path to Sylpheed, seemed to me it wouldn't be much of a stretch
> to alter the path to evolution instead. Sylpheed takes an --attach
> option. Does evolution have something similar?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pete Spotts
>
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