At 15:18 13/02/05, Andre Klapper wrote:

hi neil,

Am Sonntag, den 13.02.2005, 11:32 +0000 schrieb Neil Woolford:
> I can't find a full description of the command line syntax for
> evolution.

evolution seems to parse only the first attribute directly after the
"?" and cuts off everything after the "&", for example "evolution
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@example.com&[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
only adds recipient and cc, but not the bcc to an ew email.
i've added a bug report at
<http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=72555>.

There's been a quick response to that; embarrassingly, the problem was not escaping the
"&" character. (Thanks to spyderz for pointing this out so fast!) As it is a shell metacharacter,
the shell was grabbing it and presumably trying to parse the rest of the line itself rather than
passing it to Evolution. Doh! <:-|


So what will work is; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@example.com\&[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

("\&" in place of "&")

Having said that, *none* of the examples I found or was emailed escaped the & characters ;-)


> Where can I find information about the command line syntax and
> evolution-shell?

good question - evolution has no manual entry.

Which does seem perverse to me...

isn't there anything
about it in the documentation?

A very minimal reference to starting a message from the command line by "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but really
not enough to make proper use of it...


perhaps in the FAQ when it's up. :-/

I did try the url for the FAQ first and got a timeout; how long has it been down?


Ich bedanke mich sehr!

Neil


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