On 3 Apr 2006, at 15:29, Jason Rumney wrote:
David Reitter wrote:
Lennart Borgman proposed to do this on Windows systems. That's
because apparently, long mailto:// URLs aren't supported well.
Lennart, do you think we can be more specific here and only enable
it when it's really needed, e.g. on old Windows installations?
I don't think the need for this is limited to old installations.
Windows has a 1024 byte limit to command-lines in general AFAIK.
OK, the limitation is due to ShellExecute (which is what's obviously
used on Windows, see `w32-shell-execute').
The mailto:// business in mailclient is a kludge, lacking a cross-
platform API.
The correct way to send an e-mail on Windows would be the mail API
("MAPI").
There is already an implementation of this available, even though
goes through Visual Basic:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/w32-send-mapi.el
One could take such a piece of code and implement an interface on the
C side to avoid the VB script. We could integrate that with
mailclient, and everyone would be happy.
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