Re: Attachments with command line invocation?

Ken Mandelberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.ximian.user
Message-ID <1104439279.1830.32.camel@orac>
I've tried both of

 evolution "mailto:?to=km&attachment=/etc/hosts"
 evolution "mailto:?to=km&attachment=%2Fetc%2Fhosts"

on evolution 1.4.6, and nothing gets attached. I just get a compose window with the To: header filled in.

What am I missing?

RE:

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 11:10, guenther wrote:
> > Is it possible to invoke evolution in composition mode with
> > attachments supplied from the command line? I noticed that I can
> > invoke it with a "mailto:" url and supply header info and body, but
> > not attachments.
> 
> Yes, this is possible.
> 
> $ evolution "mailto:?to=address&cc=address&attachment=/path/to/file"
> 
> Both 'attach' as well as 'attachment' do work. Be sure to url-encode the
> string and use quotes to properly escape the & char.
> 
> Evolution should use the same method as Mozilla, AFAIK.
> 
> ...guenther


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Ken Mandelberg <[email protected]>

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