Re: html page mail link to webmail program

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Date	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:54:18 -0500
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:04:03 -0800, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
declaimed the following:

>Just in case that subject line is not perfectly clear:  ;)
>
>My wife (using a Win7 machine) will be on a web page that has a link to mail somebody.  She clicks on it, and it opens 
>the currently installed but unused Thunderbird.
>
>Ideally, what would happen is a new window/tab would open to gmail with a new compose window with the email address in 
>place and the cursor in the subject line.
>
>Is this already done somewhere?  If not, any ideas on which libs/packages to use to make it happen?

	And what does this have to do with Python?

	Sounds more like a case of having to configure: 1) the browser, 2)
Windows default mail program, 3) default handlers for certain URL
prefixes...
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Re: html page mail link to webmail program Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-11-11 21:54 -0500

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