Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 27/06/11 06:59, Jan Djärv wrote:
> Hi.
>
> David De La Harpe Golden skrev 2011-06-27 01.55:
> > On 27/06/11 00:26, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Ok... so what does that have to do with smtpmail.el or anything?
> >
> > You are talking about changing send-mail-function (see subject line). A
> > function that calls xdg-email to open an email for sending via the user's
> > preferred email client on an x11 desktop is a possible value, with the
> > advantage that said preferred email client is likely already
> > configured to
> > send somewhere useful.
>
> We have that option in report-emacs-bug. C-c m starts you preferred
> mailer. It uses xdg-email where available.

Oh. Er. And there's an implementation for macosx too.  But not w32? 
Taking Eli's point about separating bug reporting needs from 
emacs-as-a-mail-client, can C-c m be made work on w32 (if I'm not 
misreading the code and it doesn't already)?  I don't have a w32 box to 
test, but I had a vague notion just start.exe will open the default mail 
client when given a mailto: url as its arg (might be misremembering), 
similar to the macosx "open" case (gnustep equiv is "openapp", though I 
don't know what it does when passed mailto: urls)