GNU bug report logs - #3963
23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle mailto: URLs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>

Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:45:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 1367, 9135

Found in version 24.0.50

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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>
Cc: 3963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3963: 23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle mailto: URLs
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:nobody <at> example.com
>
> 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
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