Re: Gnus to handle news: and mailto: URLs from external sources?

[David Kastrup]

Kurt Swanson <direct@reply.not.desired> writes:

> I've been a heavy Gnus user for years[*] (some of the ancient ones may
> remember me), as well as a big fan of gnuserv, which allows one to
> call emacs from command lines, scripts, etc.  I.e. I have *one* emacs
> (process) and gnus started immediately upon logging in, and they run
> perpetually until reboot.
>
> I recently discovered I could mangle firefox into running an external
> program for any URIs I wanted (news:, mailto:, magnet:, screw-you:,
> etc.)  Of interest here are the first two.  Thus I can script
> something to send to gnus via gnuserv.  Obviously I would like to
> handle all the extensions (for example "?subject=xxx" for mailto:) Has
> anyone attempted this before?  Any pointers?
>
> [*] I swear to "god" I have not, and will not use outlook,
>     thunderbird, webmail or any other crap out there.

Well, just configure something like
/usr/bin/emacsclient -ne (browse-url"%r")
as your mailer command (be sure to use spaces only where I wrote them).

And
/usr/bin/emacsclient %t
as your textarea command

You can probably do this by typing the URL
about:config
into Firefox.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum