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bug#3963: 23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle mailto: URLs: msg#00583

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Subject: bug#3963: 23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle mailto: URLs

On 2009-07-29 13:38 (-0500), Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

> Now click on a mailto: link in your favourite web browser, or else run
> a command like this: open mailto:nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Notice that Emacs comes to the foreground, but nothing more happens.
> What SHOULD happen is that Emacs opens a new draft email message
> addressed to the named recipient.

As you noticed, currently Emacs doesn't handle mailto URLs. Here's my
solution for the issue:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MailtoHandler



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