Re: html page mail link to webmail program

From	Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject	Re: html page mail link to webmail program
Date	2014-11-12 19:53 -0500
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:50:28 -0500, Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>As others have mentioned, this is more a question of configuring your
>browser than anything involving python.
>
>That said, those links on a web page that open an email window are
>called "mailto" links.  A google search for "open mailto links in
>gmail" (without the quotes) gets a bunch of general information, and
>if you add your wife's browser of choice to the search terms, you
>should get some explicit instructions for setting everything up
>properly.

	And once one has managed to get MAILTO: URLs to open in gmail, one will
have learned how to send them to any application (including a Python
script, if still needed).
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Re: html page mail link to webmail program Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-11-12 19:53 -0500

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