On 12 Dec 2005, at 14:57, Dan Wang wrote:

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Mailto links should be redirected back into Roundcube so that it
composes and sends the email itself rather than the default mail client on the system. Perhaps make it a preference option, but it makes sense
to me.

Unless I'm mistaken, you'll run into this problem with any web- based mail client. This won't be a function of roundcubemail to "fix" where the mailto is going.

It will depend on where and how each OS points to the mail client.
In the case of Windows it'll be a registry hack.

Alas, you're mistaken ;)

You can parse emails looking for mailto: links and email addresses
and change them into links to the compose view.

Yours, Craig -- Craig Webster | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: craig@xeriom.net Xeriom.NET | f: +44 (0)709 287 1902 | w: http://xeriom.net

Sorry hope this isn't a repost i think i just sent the reply to dwang the first time.

Squirrelmail handles this by not making email addresses mailto: links but http:// links back to itself in a compose page. It can be done for addresses within roundcube. External browser addresses and such require a standalone program like the gmail notifier to work.

Rob

On 12/12/05, Jared W. Alessandroni < Jared.W.Alessandroni.03@alum.dartmouth.org> wrote:

str_replace("<a mailto=","<a href="http://rouncubeuser.com/roundcube?_etc ...",$message);

yah?

On Dec 12, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Dan Wang wrote:

Unless I'm mistaken, you'll run into this problem with any web-based mail

client. This won't be a function of roundcubemail to "fix" where the

mailto is going.

It will depend on where and how each OS points to the mail client. In the

case of Windows it'll be a registry hack.

Thanks,

dan

I think this is a good idea. This is how Gmail handles mailto links launched from within itself.

On 12/12/05, Rob Sell robsell@gmail.com wrote:

Sorry hope this isn't a repost i think i just sent the reply to dwang the first time.

Squirrelmail handles this by not making email addresses mailto: links but http:// links back to itself in a compose page. It can be done for addresses within roundcube. External browser addresses and such require a standalone program like the gmail notifier to work.

Rob

On 12/12/05, Jared W. Alessandroni Jared.W.Alessandroni.03@alum.dartmouth.org wrote:

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str_replace("<a mailto=","<a href=" http://rouncubeuser.com/roundcube?_etc...%22,$message);

yah?

On Dec 12, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Dan Wang wrote:

Unless I'm mistaken, you'll run into this problem with any web-based mail

client. This won't be a function of roundcubemail to "fix" where the

mailto is going.

It will depend on where and how each OS points to the mail client. In the

case of Windows it'll be a registry hack.

Thanks,

dan

You'd need something equivalent of the Google Notifier - even a
Windows Reg hack (for you Windozers) wouldn't cut it because you'd
have to both query the program (which is easy) then the URL (which is
quite hard, esp. the way Roundcube handles its get strings - on the
other hand, with a hack to RC that would allow a universal URL to
compose...) - I bet the RC Notifier could be done. And, I like it
better than a browser hack - they're too unstable. Looking for a
means by which to do it on OS X right now... Don't leave Linux out,
though!

J-dawg

On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Dan Wang wrote:

I was thinking of website mailto's and not mailto's inside an
email. oops!

thanks, dan

Yahoo! Mail provides a download that will allow you to add Yahoo! Mail as a MAPI provider in the list in MSIE. Something like this might work, although it would have to actually be customized for whatever domain you had RoundCube installed in.

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/ext/ext-09.html

Maybe some brilliant registry hacker around here could run their software and do some sort of diff on their registry to find out what the entry was... it likely would be as easy as creating a .reg file and having RoundCube admins modify it for their own domains and then make it available to their users. Or the .reg file could actually be included in the distribution, personalized as a part of installation of RoundCube, and then a "click here to make RoundCube your default mail client for MSIE/Windows" link could be put somewhere... maybe in the "Personal Settings" screens somewhere.

Don't know so much about Mac OS's or Linux.

Michael Jones American Association of Petroleum Geologists http://www.aapg.org

This should be done within plain text mails where RoundCube adds clickable links to any e-mail address found in the message body. But I assume that you have any HTML formatted mails where RoundCube does not alter the links within. We already had the discussion about link targets in HTML mails which goes into the same direction.

It's added to the list of open tasks to parse HTML messages for link tags and alter them.

Just my 2 cents for the big discussion of this thread: I don't think that RoundCube has to go into the operating system and modify any mailto: settings but if anyone wants to develop something like the tools mentioned earlier, you're welcome to do so. The problem would be to have an open session on the RoundCube server and not seeing the login first. I could imagine to have a browser extension such as GMail Notitifer that opens a session and keeps it alive while the browser is running.

Regards, Thomas

Walter Francis wrote:

Mailto links should be redirected back into Roundcube so that it composes and sends the email itself rather than the default mail client on the system. Perhaps make it a preference option, but it makes sense to me.

Thanks.