Gmail as Default Mail Client in Ubuntu ala PHP.
Posted on 18.07.2009 01:00 pm
After reading this article (Set Gmail as Default Mail Client in Ubuntu). I felt compelled to update the script he was using.
I chose to use PHP because it has a great and simple to use url parser to handle the extra arguments.
The script I wrote can be found here as a .phps file. Just rename it to .php and replace it with the .sh file in the article above.
It supports all the extra mailto: arguments like subject, cc, bcc and body. You can try it out here. (MailTo Synax)
There is one caveat. If any of the arguments contain unsafe characters for a shell, then they will be escaped with a backslash.
I haven't tested it out on Windows. If you have I'd love to hear about it. Also if you rewrite it in other languages I'd love to hear about it also.
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