Re: address@hidden: mailclient.el - revised]

[Lennart Borgman]

David Reitter wrote:

> I don't think placing data on the clipboard and asking the user to  
> copy it over would be the ideal solution. Using MAPI (instead of  
> mailclient) seems to be the correct way to do things on Windows.
> The reason that I didn't propose mailclient as default on Win  
> originally was exactly what you said: I heard that the URL length is  
> limited, at least under certain circumstances.
>
> I guess it would be best to not use mailclient as default on Windows  
> and hope that someone (you?) will implement MAPI functionality...
> If people use a variety of Win / a URL client that supports long  
> URLs, they can still set the send-mail-function to mailclient.

I agree, but at the moment I feel that placing data on the clipboard is 
a good workaround. At the moment I do not have time to implement MAPI 
support and I do not even know if it is welcome.

So I suggest that my workaround is adopted.