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1 ;;; mailclient.el --- mail sending via system's mail client. -*- byte-compile-dynamic: t -*-
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation
4
5 ;; Author: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
6 ;; Keywords: mail
7
8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
9
10 ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
13 ;; (at your option) any later version.
14
15 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
19
20 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
22
23 ;;; Commentary:
24
25 ;; This package allows to hand over a buffer to be sent off
26 ;; via the system's designated e-mail client.
27 ;; Note that the e-mail client will display the contents of the buffer
28 ;; again for editing.
29 ;; The e-mail client is taken to be whoever handles a mailto: URL
30 ;; via `browse-url'.
31 ;; Mailto: URLs are composed according to RFC2368.
32
33 ;; MIME bodies are not supported - we rather expect the mail client
34 ;; to encode the body and add, for example, a digital signature.
35 ;; The mailto URL RFC calls for "short text messages that are
36 ;; actually the content of automatic processing."
37 ;; So mailclient.el is ideal for situations where an e-mail is
38 ;; generated automatically, and the user can edit it in the
39 ;; mail client (e.g. bug-reports).
40
41 ;; To activate:
42 ;; (setq send-mail-function 'mailclient-send-it) ; if you use `mail'
43
44 ;;; Code:
45
46
47 (require 'sendmail) ;; for mail-sendmail-undelimit-header
48 (require 'mail-utils) ;; for mail-fetch-field
49
50 (defcustom mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag
51 (fboundp 'w32-set-clipboard-data)
52 "If non-nil, put the e-mail body on the clipboard in mailclient.
53 This is useful on systems where only short mailto:// URLs are
54 supported. Defaults to non-nil on Windows, nil otherwise."
55 :type 'boolean
56 :group 'mail)
57
58 (defun mailclient-encode-string-as-url (string)
59 "Convert STRING to a URL, using utf-8 as encoding."
60 (apply (function concat)
61 (mapcar
62 (lambda (char)
63 (cond
64 ((eq char ?\x20) "%20") ;; space
65 ((eq char ?\n) "%0D%0A") ;; newline
66 ((string-match "[-a-zA-Z0-9_:/.@]" (char-to-string char))
67 (char-to-string char)) ;; printable
68 (t ;; everything else
69 (format "%%%02x" char)))) ;; escape
70 ;; Convert string to list of chars
71 (append (encode-coding-string string 'utf-8)))))
72
73 (defvar mailclient-delim-static "?")
74 (defun mailclient-url-delim ()
75 (let ((current mailclient-delim-static))
76 (setq mailclient-delim-static "&")
77 current))
78
79 (defun mailclient-gather-addresses (str &optional drop-first-name)
80 (let ((field (mail-fetch-field str nil t)))
81 (if field
82 (save-excursion
83 (let ((first t)
84 (result ""))
85 (mapc
86 (lambda (recp)
87 (setq result
88 (concat
89 result
90 (if (and drop-first-name
91 first)
92 ""
93 (concat (mailclient-url-delim) str "="))
94 (mailclient-encode-string-as-url
95 recp)))
96 (setq first nil))
97 (split-string
98 (mail-strip-quoted-names field) "\, *"))
99 result)))))
100
101 ;;;###autoload
102 (defun mailclient-send-it ()
103 "Pass current buffer on to the system's mail client.
104 Suitable value for `send-mail-function'.
105 The mail client is taken to be the handler of mailto URLs."
106 (require 'mail-utils)
107 (let ((case-fold-search nil)
108 delimline
109 (mailbuf (current-buffer)))
110 (unwind-protect
111 (with-temp-buffer
112 (insert-buffer-substring mailbuf)
113 ;; Move to header delimiter
114 (mail-sendmail-undelimit-header)
115 (setq delimline (point-marker))
116 (if mail-aliases
117 (expand-mail-aliases (point-min) delimline))
118 (goto-char (point-min))
119 ;; ignore any blank lines in the header
120 (while (and (re-search-forward "\n\n\n*" delimline t)
121 (< (point) delimline))
122 (replace-match "\n"))
123 (let ((case-fold-search t))
124 ;; initialize limiter
125 (setq mailclient-delim-static "?")
126 ;; construct and call up mailto URL
127 (browse-url
128 (concat
129 (save-excursion
130 (narrow-to-region (point-min) delimline)
131 (concat
132 "mailto:"
133 ;; some of the headers according to RFC822
134 (mailclient-gather-addresses "To"
135 'drop-first-name)
136 (mailclient-gather-addresses "cc" )
137 (mailclient-gather-addresses "bcc" )
138 (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-To" )
139 (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-cc" )
140 (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-bcc" )
141 (mailclient-gather-addresses "Reply-To" )
142 ;; The From field is not honored for now: it's
143 ;; not necessarily configured. The mail client
144 ;; knows the user's address(es)
145 ;; (mailclient-gather-addresses "From" )
146 ;; subject line
147 (let ((subj (mail-fetch-field "Subject" nil t)))
148 (widen) ;; so we can read the body later on
149 (if subj ;; if non-blank
150 ;; the mail client will deal with
151 ;; warning the user etc.
152 (concat (mailclient-url-delim) "subject="
153 (mailclient-encode-string-as-url subj))
154 ""))))
155 ;; body
156 (concat
157 (mailclient-url-delim) "body="
158 (mailclient-encode-string-as-url
159 (if mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag
160 (progn
161 (clipboard-kill-ring-save
162 (+ 1 delimline) (point-max))
163 (concat
164 "*** E-Mail body has been placed on clipboard, "
165 "please paste them here! ***"))
166 ;; else
167 (buffer-substring (+ 1 delimline) (point-max))))))))))))
168
169 (provide 'mailclient)
170
171 ;; arch-tag: 35d10fc8-a1bc-4f29-a4e6-c288e53578ef
172 ;;; mailclient.el ends here