Warren Samples wrote:
On 09/14/2012 08:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Maybe I'm coming in late to this thread, but if the body of the email is
less than 1k have you considered just sending it along as a param in the
url?:
on mouseUp
put "someone at somewhere.com" into tAddress
put "Hello!" into tSubject
put "This is the body"&cr&"of the email." into tBody
put "mailto:"&; tAddress & "?" \
& "subject="& tSubject &"&" \
& "body="& tBody into tEmailURL
launch url tEmailURL
end mouseUp
...
This script causes unexpected problems here. It launches KMail on my
system despite my having Thunderbird properly set as the default system
email client. What happens if no desktop client is being used? (I
honestly don't know, I have never been one of those people who use
web-based mail.) Can one be assured that that behavior will be
consistent? A second problem on my system, running Linux, is that the
body is not inserted into the message. This seems to be related to the
number of parameters the system will pass to the email client. It
accepts only two, apparently. So, recipient's address + (pick one: cc,
subject OR body). revMail also behaves exactly this way here.
Those are all good points, but I suspect there would be even more issues
trying to get consistent behavior with managing the OS mechanism for
copy-and-paste into email clients on all those platforms.
Probably the most reliable method would be to write a quick CGI to
receive the data, and have the dialog stack post it there over HTTP.
That seems to be how this sort of thing is handled most often.
--
Richard Gaskin
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