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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Controlling KMail
From:       Don Sanders <don () sanders ! org>
Date:       2000-04-03 13:15:12
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Well multiple personas, nested messages, search dialog, improved address book 
and colorfied indenting all seem higher priority to me.

On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hopefully potential listeners are still here.
> I want to discuss internals, therefore I redirected my reply from kde-devel
> to kmail :-)
>
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Philipp Gühring wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > How can I automatically create an Email with kmail, which includes
> > > some content, which the user may edit, and send afterwards.
> > >
> > > I tried this:
> > > kfmclient exec "mailto:p.guehring@poboxes.com?body=test"
> > >
> > > It seems to recognice the ? but that still doesn't help.
> > >
> > > I tried this:
> > > kmail p.guehring@poboxes.com <test.txt
> > >
> > > But nothing worked.
> >
> > I don't know why you would think that would work, I guess it didn't hurt
> > to try.
> >
> > Well you could try this
> > $ cp test.txt ~/dead.letter
> > $ kmail
>
> [...]
>
> I think the ability to specify a complete email as an argument upon kmail
> start is a nice idea that might come handy.
>
> I was a bit surprised by the URL syntax:
> > > kfmclient exec "mailto:p.guehring@poboxes.com?body=test"
>
> As Philipp tried this, it is probably valid. However, it looks pretty
> strange to specify a whole email in an URL.
>
> IMO, if we support anything in kmail, we should support either this:
> > > kmail p.guehring@poboxes.com <test.txt
>
> .... or specifying the message as an argument, e.g. "-template"
> Or both of them ;-)
>
> Opinions?
>
> Kind regards,
> Stefan

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