Re: [Gnumed-devel] talkback client

[J Busser]

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> J Busser wrote:
> > At 8:01 AM +1000 3/30/05, Ian Haywood wrote:
> >
> > > P.S. does anyone have any comment on using the user's mailreader 
> > > to send talkbacks?
> >
> >
> > Does this mean "trigger" whatever mailreader is designated in the 
> > operating system, to launch that app (if it is not already running) 
> > and
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> designated by the user.
> Question: is there a convention for specifyin the user's preferred mail
> client. (similar to the $EDITOR and $PAGER environment variables honoured
> by many UNIX tools)

On Macs, the default apps for Internet activities (file mapping 
settings and protocol helpers) used to be set in Internet Config 
though this has since been "moved" from a System Preferences pane 
into each of Apple's "default" apps Safari and Mail. Links:
http://blogs.msdn.com/decheung/archive/2004/05/18/133887.aspx
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18530
http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/moreInternet/

On Windows and maybe Macs too (for the cross-platform app Filemaker 
Pro) the ability to pipe email into a default email app requires 
"MAPI compliance", a limited link is here:
http://www.linktionary.com/m/mapi.html