Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Jeff Clough wrote:


> I don't think this is so much that browse-url is brittle, just that a
> case can be made that it should work for the more defaulty browsers.
> The overall issue of having Emacs get the right answer to "What is your
> mail client?" might still ought to be addressed in a way that doesn't
> rely on browsers at all, which may be more possible now than it was
> however long ago.

FWIW, on freedesktop.org desktops, "xdg-email" opens the user's 
preferred mail composer (and takes args for specifying subject/body etc.)

Last time around, the issue of what happens when the user's preferred 
mail composer desktop setting was then set to emacsclient was of concern 
due to deadlock opportunities.