Re: E-mailing pictures

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:36 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 06/11/06, Johan Brannlund <johan_brn yahoo com> wrote:
> > Hi. I noticed that the "send e-mail" feature didn't work with Balsa, my
> > mail program of choice. The problem was that Balsa didn't recognize
> > attachments in mailto links (once some security concerns have been
> > addressed, this will be taken care of).
> >
> > Another problem was that by default, f-spot deletes the temporary picture
> > files 30 seconds after launching the mailer. In Balsa, that means that if
> > you take longer than that to compose your message, the files are no longer
> > there and will not be attached.
> >
> > I just set the gconf key for the delay to 100 000 seconds, but it'd be
> > nice if this problem could be solved once and for all in either f-spot or
> > Balsa.

That is the workaround :)

> >
> > What do other MUAs do?

There is no standard for this, and no standard way to launch any mail
client with attached photos.

> 
> For now, F-Spot only works in Evolution, so far as I know. There was
> talk about improving the mailing to include other MUIs, however each
> MUI expects a different form of attachments string.
> 
> An option to manually edit the attachments command would help here. As
> for the 30 second delete, that should most definetly be raised to at
> least an hour.

30 seconds worked fine for me and evolution and I tried with 40 or so
pictures of 3 MB each.
Evolution is the standard Gnome mail client.
If you quit F-Spot before the delay timeout has occured, then the
temporary files will never be deleted.

There is a script in the
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=71609&action=view
attached to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314559 which is
supposed to enable f-spot to work with Thunderbird.

Something like this has to be implemented for each mail client, and
preferably as a plugin I would say.
Or rather, since SendMail will be re-implemented as a plugin as soon as
the plugin patch is accepted, then it should be easy to fix different
plugins for each mail client. (all based on the evolution one, so only
to change in one place more or less)

/Bengt
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