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J Busser wrote:
At 8:01 AM +1000 3/30/05, Ian Haywood wrote:

P.S. does anyone have any comment on using the user's mailreader to send talkbacks?


Does this mean "trigger" whatever mailreader is designated in the operating system, to launch that app (if it is not already running) and
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
designated by the user.
Question: is there a convention for specifyin the user's preferred mail
client. (similar to the $EDITOR and $PAGER environment variables honoured
by many UNIX tools)

On Macs, the default apps for Internet activities (file mapping settings and protocol helpers) used to be set in Internet Config though this has since been "moved" from a System Preferences pane into each of Apple's "default" apps Safari and Mail. Links:
http://blogs.msdn.com/decheung/archive/2004/05/18/133887.aspx
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18530
http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/moreInternet/


On Windows and maybe Macs too (for the cross-platform app Filemaker Pro) the ability to pipe email into a default email app requires "MAPI compliance", a limited link is here:
http://www.linktionary.com/m/mapi.html




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