Re: [PATCH] MapiSendMail() implementation

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:54:56AM +0100, Jan Schiefer wrote:
> This is an attempt of an basic MAPISendMail() implementation.
> It does, what is should, it sends mails.
>
> Much more work is needed especially to clean it up and to implement more 
> features. ( Getting rid of printf's would be a good point to start... )

You mean much more work such as including mail.c in the patch? :)

Andreas Mohr

[PATCH] MapiSendMail() implementation

[Robert Shearman]

Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:54:56AM +0100, Jan Schiefer wrote:
> > This is an attempt of an basic MAPISendMail() implementation.
> > It does, what is should, it sends mails.
> >
> > Much more work is needed especially to clean it up and to implement more 
> > features. ( Getting rid of printf's would be a good point to start... )
>
> You mean much more work such as including mail.c in the patch? :)

Also, I believe MAPISendMail should just forward to the appropriate mail 
provider, rather than implementing mail sending itself.

Rob

[PATCH] MapiSendMail() implementation

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:54:43 -0600, Robert Shearman wrote:
> Also, I believe MAPISendMail should just forward to the appropriate mail 
> provider, rather than implementing mail sending itself.

More to the point, isn't this supposed to bring up the users email client?
We can't do that on Linux so I'm not sure how it can be implemented
properly yet....

[PATCH] MapiSendMail() implementation

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:54:43 -0600, Robert Shearman wrote:
> > Also, I believe MAPISendMail should just forward to the appropriate mail 
> > provider, rather than implementing mail sending itself.
>
> More to the point, isn't this supposed to bring up the users email client?
> We can't do that on Linux so I'm not sure how it can be implemented
> properly yet....

Gnome has the notion of "default email client", i suspect KDE has it too.

bye
    michael

[PATCH] MapiSendMail() implementation

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:21 +0100, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> Gnome has the notion of "default email client", i suspect KDE has it too.

Unless you use Bonobo+Evolution (and maybe KMail+DCOP) though you can't
match the abilities of MAPI, which lets you create arbitrary emails.

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[Matthew Mastracci]

Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:21 +0100, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> > Gnome has the notion of "default email client", i suspect KDE has it too.
>
> Unless you use Bonobo+Evolution (and maybe KMail+DCOP) though you can't
> match the abilities of MAPI, which lets you create arbitrary emails.

Mozilla's command-line API also lets you create rich messages as well 
(attachments, to/from/subject, body).  Perhaps a "wine-mapi" shell 
script might be required until freedesktop comes up with a proper mail 
sending spec?

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html

Matt.

[PATCH] MapiSendMail() implementation

[Mike Hearn]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:53:44 -0700, Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> Mozilla's command-line API also lets you create rich messages as well 
> (attachments, to/from/subject, body).  Perhaps a "wine-mapi" shell 
> script might be required until freedesktop comes up with a proper mail 
> sending spec?
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html

Yes, that could work, and there is prior art in the form of winebrowser. I
say go for it.

thanks -mike

[PATCH] MapiSendMail() implementation

[Kuba Ober]

On poniedziałek 07 marzec 2005 02:40 pm, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:21 +0100, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> > Gnome has the notion of "default email client", i suspect KDE has it too.
>
> Unless you use Bonobo+Evolution (and maybe KMail+DCOP) though you can't
> match the abilities of MAPI, which lets you create arbitrary emails.

Using dcop with kmail gives you more power, but for basic functionality 
command line suffices:

echo "Hello!" > contents_file
kmail \
  --subject "Test email" \
  --header "In-Reply-To: " \
  --msg contents_file \
  --composer

Cheers, Kuba