In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cameron Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>the simplest way to launch the user's standard mail client from a
>>Python program is by creating a mailto: URL and launching the
>>webbrowser:
>>
>>def mailto_url(to=None,subject=None,body=None,cc=None):
>> """
>> encodes the content as a mailto link as described on
>> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html
>> Examples partly taken from
>> http://selfhtml.teamone.de/html/verweise/email.htm
>> """
>> url = "mailto:"; + urllib.quote(to.strip(),"@,")
>> sep = "?"
>> if cc:
>> url+= sep + "cc=" + urllib.quote(cc,"@,")
>> sep = "&"
>> if subject:
>> url+= sep + "subject=" + urllib.quote(subject,"")
>> sep = "&"
>> if body:
>> # Also note that line breaks in the body of a message MUST be
>> # encoded with "%0D%0A". (RFC 2368)
>> body="\r\n".join(body.splitlines())
>> url+= sep + "body=" + urllib.quote(body,"")
>> sep = "&"
>> return url
>>
>>import webbrowser
>>url = mailto_url(...)
>>webbrowser.open(url,new=1)
>>
>>(Excerpt from
>>http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/lino/trunk/src/lino/tools/mail.py?op=file&rev=0&sc=0)
>>
>>But this method is limited: you cannot specify a file to be attached
>>to the mail. And I guess that there would be problems if the body text
>>is too complex.
>>
>>Does somebody know about a better method?
>>It should be possible at least on Windows, since Acrobat Reader is
>>able to do it.
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>Portland <URL:
>http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-6281-53-799-798304-697089-0-0-0-1 >
>is the best standardization of this problem we have under Linux.
>
>I'll address Windows in a subsequent follow-up.
A. Apologies! I'm sorry about the URL above; it was
completely wrong. I intended <URL:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-portland.html >.
B. The best approach I know under Windows is to invoke
start mailto:$ADDRESS
1. That invocation does *not* communicate
subject, attachments, ... To do so
adequately involves application-specific
work, as other follow-ups have mentioned.
2. "start" has its own complexities. The
best invocation from console-based Python
is likely to be
start /w "" mailto:$ADDRESS
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