Odd behaviour from revMail, why?
Sounds like it would be best to roll your own by sending a command to the shell. If you can control the platform its running on, this will be reliable and do exactly what you specify? Peter ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Odd behaviour from revMail, why?
I got the attached from the dictionary, cut and pasted it, and only changed it to make Field1 a real reference to a real field on the test card. When I use it, the first thing that happens is Firefox opens. Then Kmail opens. It shows [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address, but nothing else is put into either subject or body. I was expecting to see Help! appear in the subject, and the contents of Field1 to appear in the body, and for only Kmail to open. Isn't this what is supposed to happen? Putting in a literal string in place of field has no effect either. Does revMail do this on Mac or XP? __ on mouseUp revMail [EMAIL PROTECTED],,Help!,field Field1 end mouseUp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Odd behaviour from revMail, why?
Peter Alcibiades wrote: I got the attached from the dictionary, cut and pasted it, and only changed it to make Field1 a real reference to a real field on the test card. When I use it, the first thing that happens is Firefox opens. Then Kmail opens. It shows [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address, but nothing else is put into either subject or body. I was expecting to see Help! appear in the subject, and the contents of Field1 to appear in the body, and for only Kmail to open. Isn't this what is supposed to happen? Putting in a literal string in place of field has no effect either. Does revMail do this on Mac or XP? It's different on every platform and email client; I get different results depending on what app opens and what OS I'm running. But I think you should enter the above into a bug report, mainly because I don't think the revMail handler is written correctly for Linux. Now would be a good time to report it, since the team is working on the next Linux release right now. The revMail command doesn't really mail anything itself; instead it sets up url-encoded text for the address, body, and other components of an email. Then it passes the data to the revGoURL command. The revGoURL command does the actual handling of the email. On Macs, it sends an applescript and the Mac OS decides which app to launch (which it does correctly.) Mail gets opened in the user's default email client and URLs go to a browser. On Windows the handler figures out whether its an email or a web link and uses launch to open the right app, which it determines by reading the registry. However, on Linux there is very little handling done at all. RevGoURL just sends the URL to a browser, which then handles the email request itself by opening your mail client. That's why you see the browser appear first. I suspect the browser is ignoring the extra parameters and is only sending the first one -- the email address. The revGoURL command needs to be rewritten to specifically accomodate email requests on Linux. That's the part to report as a bug. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Odd behaviour from revMail, why?
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:54:00 -0500, J. Landman Gay wrote: It's different on every platform and email client; I get different results depending on what app opens and what OS I'm running. But I think you should enter the above into a bug report, mainly because I don't think the revMail handler is written correctly for Linux. Now would be a good time to report it, since the team is working on the next Linux release right now. Actually, I tested it under Kubuntu and Ubuntu and got differing results - on Ubuntu, it launched Firefox and opened up the email client, perfectly addresses. On Kubuntu it did absolutely nothing. So I'm not so sure it's Linux-specific - I think the 'mailto:' is being formatted correctly, but I can tell you from experience that different mail clients are more finicky than others. Some need to have things quoted, some don't, etc. Although it's probably a good idea to post your findings to bugzilla anyway just so that the team can see your results. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
