On 8/8/14 6:57 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Trane Francks wrote:
On 8/8/14 5:17 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Trane Francks wrote:
On 8/8/14 2:54 AM, Philip Taylor wrote:
Trane Francks wrote:
Add command-line parameter %1 to the executable at the end of the
line:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet\SeaMonkey\seamonkey.exe" -mail %1
If that doesn't work, try %~f1 instead.
Again, this is untested. I don't use SeaMonkey on Windows, so I cannot
actually test for you.
For me (Windows 7 Enterprise, Seamonkey 2.17.1), *.eml opens in
Seamonkey browser; if I drag and drop a *.eml file on the e-mail
client, the drop is rejected; if I drag and drop a *.eml file
on a message window opened from the e-mail client, the drop is
accepted but the resulting action is null. I therefore suspect
that the Seamonkey e-mail client cannot handle *.eml files, at
least at 2.17.1. Later releases may differ.
Philip Taylor
Well, it was a nice idea, but apparently it won't work. While I can get
.eml files to display in the browser, the mail component does not seem
to take file parameters.
If I'm already in the mail client and do File | Open and point to an
.eml file, it opens in the mail client. If I double-click on an .eml
file in Windows Explorer, it opens in the browser. There doesn't seem to
be a way to pass the -mail parameter to the program when you specify
which program Windows uses to open this file type (I haven't tried
fiddling with the registry, but I suspect an expert could do it there).
As pointed out earlier in the quotes in this post, it's possible to open
SeaMonkey's mail component directly by using the '-mail' parameter by
means of a batch file.
Yes, I know. There are several ways of launching the mail client.
The problem is that there seems to be no way to open an EML file via
command line other than with the browser.
I thought I said that, too. If the objective is to open an .eml file in
the mail client, you have to do it from the mail client; you can't do it
externally. For some reason, if you tell Windows to open a file with
SeaMonkey, it uses the browser even if the file is a mail file and even
if the suite is set to launch with the mail client only. Is this because
SeaMonkey doesn't know that .eml is a mail file and needs to be told by
a user opening it from the mail client? If so, that should be fixable.
SeaMonkey knows quite well that EML is a mail file; forwarded mail as an
attachment is in EML format. It appears simply that one cannot open
files from the command line in the mail component. Although SM takes
files on the command line, setting the -mail switch does not open the
EML file, it just opens the Mail window.
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