Re: lynx-dev Perl script interface for composing mail to mailto links

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Henry Nelson wrote:

> > pasted.  This method can't include original message - same as in the
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what "original message" means in the context of
> mailto:*.  Could you or others explain?  Thanks.

Yes, that _is_ unclear; I meant, whatever lynx currently treats as
original message, by including it prefixed with '>', when sending mail.
Which may be an original _message_ when replying to archived lynx-dev
messages, for example, and somthing else entirely in other cases.

> > Whoever tries this, please report success or failure.
> 
> Unfortunately I've been having trouble getting perl to compile, and I'm
> a bit new to the package way of doing things.  (Anyway, I don't see what's
> so bad about External as it stands.  Nevertheless, I'll give it due try
> in time.  Thanks for the recipe since that's about all I can do.)

I've put my first attempt to do this with 'just shell' here:
   <http://www.enteract.com/~kweide/lynx/mailto-bash-lcgi.tar.gz>
README is included.  You'll probably need bash (adjust first lines), and
it's very slow, but enough to send a moo moo message for demo purposes.


   Klaus




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