Subject: Re: bug#3963: 23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle mailto: URLs

From: Teemu Likonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:05:05 +0300

On 2009-07-29 13:38 (-0500), Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

> Now click on a mailto: link in your favourite web browser, or else run
> a command like this:  open mailto:[email-masked]
>
> Notice that Emacs comes to the foreground, but nothing more happens.
> What SHOULD happen is that Emacs opens a new draft email message
> addressed to the named recipient.

As you noticed, currently Emacs doesn't handle mailto URLs. Here's my
solution for the issue:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MailtoHandler