;;; mailclient.el --- mail sending via system's mail client. -*- byte-compile-dynamic: t -*-
-;; Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation
+;; Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation
;; Author: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
;; Keywords: mail
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-;; any later version.
+;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;; (at your option) any later version.
;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
-;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
-;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;; Commentary:
-;; This package allows to hand over a buffer to be sent off
-;; via the system's designated e-mail client.
+;; This package allows to hand over a buffer to be sent off
+;; via the system's designated e-mail client.
;; Note that the e-mail client will display the contents of the buffer
;; again for editing.
;; The e-mail client is taken to be whoever handles a mailto: URL
-;; via `browse-url'.
+;; via `browse-url'.
;; Mailto: URLs are composed according to RFC2368.
;; MIME bodies are not supported - we rather expect the mail client
;; to encode the body and add, for example, a digital signature.
;; The mailto URL RFC calls for "short text messages that are
-;; actually the content of automatic processing."
+;; actually the content of automatic processing."
;; So mailclient.el is ideal for situations where an e-mail is
-;; generated automatically, and the user can edit it in the
-;; mail client (e.g. bug-reports).
+;; generated automatically, and the user can edit it in the
+;; mail client (e.g. bug-reports).
;; To activate:
;; (setq send-mail-function 'mailclient-send-it) ; if you use `mail'
(require 'sendmail) ;; for mail-sendmail-undelimit-header
(require 'mail-utils) ;; for mail-fetch-field
+(require 'browse-url)
-(defcustom mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag
+(defcustom mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag
(fboundp 'w32-set-clipboard-data)
"If non-nil, put the e-mail body on the clipboard in mailclient.
-This is useful on systems where only short mailto:// URLs are
-supported. Defaults to non-nil on Windows, nil otherwise."
+This is useful on systems where only short mailto:// URLs are
+supported. Defaults to non-nil on Windows, nil otherwise."
:type 'boolean
:group 'mail)
(lambda (char)
(cond
((eq char ?\x20) "%20") ;; space
- ((eq char ?\n) "%0D%0A") ;; newline
+ ((eq char ?\n) "%0D%0A") ;; newline
((string-match "[-a-zA-Z0-9_:/.@]" (char-to-string char))
(char-to-string char)) ;; printable
(t ;; everything else
(defvar mailclient-delim-static "?")
(defun mailclient-url-delim ()
(let ((current mailclient-delim-static))
- (setq mailclient-delim-static "&")
+ (setq mailclient-delim-static "&")
current))
(defun mailclient-gather-addresses (str &optional drop-first-name)
(let ((field (mail-fetch-field str nil t)))
(if field
(save-excursion
- (let ((first t)
+ (let ((first t)
(result ""))
(mapc
(lambda (recp)
- (setq result
- (concat
+ (setq result
+ (concat
result
(if (and drop-first-name
first)
""
(concat (mailclient-url-delim) str "="))
- (mailclient-encode-string-as-url
+ (mailclient-encode-string-as-url
recp)))
(setq first nil))
- (split-string
+ (split-string
(mail-strip-quoted-names field) "\, *"))
result)))))
+(declare-function clipboard-kill-ring-save "menu-bar.el" (beg end))
+
;;;###autoload
-(defun mailclient-send-it ()
+(defun mailclient-send-it ()
"Pass current buffer on to the system's mail client.
Suitable value for `send-mail-function'.
The mail client is taken to be the handler of mailto URLs."
(while (and (re-search-forward "\n\n\n*" delimline t)
(< (point) delimline))
(replace-match "\n"))
- (let ((case-fold-search t))
+ (let ((case-fold-search t)
+ ;; Use the external browser function to send the
+ ;; message.
+ (browse-url-mailto-function nil))
;; initialize limiter
(setq mailclient-delim-static "?")
;; construct and call up mailto URL
- (browse-url
- (concat
+ (browse-url
+ (concat
(save-excursion
(narrow-to-region (point-min) delimline)
- (concat
+ (concat
"mailto:"
;; some of the headers according to RFC822
- (mailclient-gather-addresses "To"
- 'drop-first-name)
+ (mailclient-gather-addresses "To"
+ 'drop-first-name)
(mailclient-gather-addresses "cc" )
(mailclient-gather-addresses "bcc" )
(mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-To" )
(if subj ;; if non-blank
;; the mail client will deal with
;; warning the user etc.
- (concat (mailclient-url-delim) "subject="
+ (concat (mailclient-url-delim) "subject="
(mailclient-encode-string-as-url subj))
""))))
;; body
- (concat
- (mailclient-url-delim) "body="
+ (concat
+ (mailclient-url-delim) "body="
(mailclient-encode-string-as-url
(if mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag
(progn
- (clipboard-kill-ring-save
+ (clipboard-kill-ring-save
(+ 1 delimline) (point-max))
(concat
"*** E-Mail body has been placed on clipboard, "
- "please paste them here! ***"))
+ "please paste it here! ***"))
;; else
(buffer-substring (+ 1 delimline) (point-max))))))))))))