open default MUA with a hyper link

[Yann.K]

Hello.

I would like to do a hypertext link on a GUI, which launch a per default
mail user agent (with the "to" header documented).
To launch an url in a web browser i use webbrowser.open(url).
Do exist an equivalent command to run the per default MUA (like ie
webbrowser.mail_open(to**@example.com)?

Thank's for your help.

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[Jp Calderone]

Yann.K wrote:

Hello.

I would like to do a hypertext link on a GUI, which launch a per default
mail user agent (with the "to" header documented).
To launch an url in a web browser i use webbrowser.open(url).
Do exist an equivalent command to run the per default MUA (like ie
webbrowser.mail_open(to**@example.com)?

Thank's for your help.

webbrowser.open("mailto:ex*****@divmod.com") gives me a mozilla
browser and a mozilla compose window. I don't know of an existing way
to do better than that.

Jp

[Yann.K]

Jp Calderone wrote:

Yann.K wrote:
webbrowser.open("mailto:ex*****@divmod.com") gives me a mozilla
browser and a mozilla compose window. I don't know of an existing way
to do better than that.

Yes i tried already that, but it isn't very nice: two window for one
required...

Regards.
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[Nemesis]

"Jp Calderone" wrote:

[opening the default MUA]

webbrowser.open("mailto:ex*****@divmod.com") gives me a mozilla
browser and a mozilla compose window. I don't know of an existing way
to do better than that.

How can I use this syntax in order to specify also the body of the
mail?

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[Alex Martelli]

Nemesis <ne*@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

"Jp Calderone" wrote:

[opening the default MUA]

webbrowser.open("mailto:ex*****@divmod.com") gives me a mozilla
browser and a mozilla compose window. I don't know of an existing way
to do better than that.

How can I use this syntax in order to specify also the body of the
mail?

Study the mailto: syntax on any HTML reference, e.g.
http://docs.intellifuzz.com/readmore.php?p=39
Alex

[Nemesis]

"Alex Martelli" wrote:

[mailto trick]

How can I use this syntax in order to specify also the body of the
mail?

Study the mailto: syntax on any HTML reference, e.g.
http://docs.intellifuzz.com/readmore.php?p=39

Thank you for the link.
I tried that syntax, but it seems that Internet Explorer
doesn't support multiline bodies :-/

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[Alex Martelli]

Nemesis <ne*@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

"Alex Martelli" wrote:

[mailto trick]

How can I use this syntax in order to specify also the body of the
mail?

Study the mailto: syntax on any HTML reference, e.g.
http://docs.intellifuzz.com/readmore.php?p=39

Thank you for the link.
I tried that syntax, but it seems that Internet Explorer
doesn't support multiline bodies :-/

Your choice is then to either upgrade to a better browser (IE has been
stagnant in features for years, resting on its laurels) or to drive IE
more intimately and "proprietarily" -- with win32com you can probably
make it turn somersaults, although your hair will whiten considerably
while you learn how to do so.
Alex

[Nemesis]

"Alex Martelli" wrote:

Thank you for the link.
I tried that syntax, but it seems that Internet Explorer
doesn't support multiline bodies :-/

Your choice is then to either upgrade to a better browser (IE has been
stagnant in features for years, resting on its laurels) or to drive IE
more intimately and "proprietarily" -- with win32com you can probably
make it turn somersaults, although your hair will whiten considerably
while you learn how to do so.

Actually I use Firebird ;-)
I'm studying this syntax in order to implement it in XPN, the newsreader
I'm writing. I'd like to use it when the article has a

"Followup-To: poster".

So I need a simple and multiplatform solution.

However I found that I can use an encoded form of the newline (%0A) that
works with IE (I haven't tried yet with different browsers).I think I'll
use the urllib.quote function in order to obtain this coding.

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[Alex Martelli]

Nemesis <ne*@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

"Alex Martelli" wrote:

Thank you for the link.
I tried that syntax, but it seems that Internet Explorer
doesn't support multiline bodies :-/
Your choice is then to either upgrade to a better browser (IE has been
stagnant in features for years, resting on its laurels) or to drive IE
more intimately and "proprietarily" -- with win32com you can probably
make it turn somersaults, although your hair will whiten considerably
while you learn how to do so.

Actually I use Firebird ;-)

Nice database engine, but not much of a browser. Maybe you mean
Firefox;-?
I'm studying this syntax in order to implement it in XPN, the newsreader
I'm writing. I'd like to use it when the article has a

"Followup-To: poster".

So I need a simple and multiplatform solution.

However I found that I can use an encoded form of the newline (%0A) that
works with IE (I haven't tried yet with different browsers).I think I'll
use the urllib.quote function in order to obtain this coding.

Sounds sensible, offhand.
Alex

[Nemesis]

Mentre io pensavo ad una intro simpatica "Alex Martelli" scriveva:

> Your choice is then to either upgrade to a better browser (IE has been
> stagnant in features for years, resting on its laurels) or to drive IE
> more intimately and "proprietarily" -- with win32com you can probably
> make it turn somersaults, although your hair will whiten considerably
> while you learn how to do so.

Actually I use Firebird ;-)

Nice database engine, but not much of a browser. Maybe you mean
Firefox;-?

You are right, but once Firefox was called Firebird, and before that it
was called Phoenix :-)

I'm studying this syntax in order to implement it in XPN, the newsreader
I'm writing. I'd like to use it when the article has a
"Followup-To: poster".
So I need a simple and multiplatform solution.
However I found that I can use an encoded form of the newline (%0A) that
works with IE (I haven't tried yet with different browsers).I think I'll
use the urllib.quote function in order to obtain this coding.

Sounds sensible, offhand.

I changed my mind of course :-D
Now I'm working to implement a simple mail support in XPN using smptlib.
:-)

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