[darcs-devel] [darcs #115] support for external mailto handlers.

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Sat Dec 04 14:26:17 2004: New ticket: 115.
Transaction: Ticket created by guest
       Queue: Darcs
     Subject: support for external mailto handlers.
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: erik at bagfors.nu
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: http://bugs.darcs.net/.//Ticket/Display.html?id=115 >

I'd like to have support for using external mailto-handlers to send
mail.  For example, gnome-open (which takes the application in the 
gnome-settings) evolution, kmail, thunderbird etc.

It should be very easy to do and I've started it but having never
programmed haskell before it wasn't simple :).

Here is my suggestion.

darcs send --external-mailto=gnome-open

would create a file in /tmp with the patches, named something. Then run
the command "gnome-open
mailto:TO?subject=SUBJECT&attach=/tmp/SOMETHING&cc=CC"

Where TO, SUBJECT, SOMETHING and CC is replaced by the same values as
the sendmail-based mail code (but uriencoded).

This would open a mail-window in the users prefered application and the
user can send the patch.


This should also be able to be a setting you can set in darcs
preferences of course.

This is really needed for those of us that are behind firewalls and
can't send mail through normal sendmail command.

I got as far as writing the uriencode code and adding the commandline to
darcs but then my haskell knowledge died.

Regards,
Erik