It is not terribly difficulty. Mine bombs however when the mailto
includes subject information that mutt appears to not understand, yet
netscape's mailer and outlook have no problem with. It shouldn't be too
difficult to add some mutt specific switches to elm.c before compiling
though. Anyone have an easy fix or is recompiling the only solution?
-matt
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:51:38AM -0400, Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 04:13:00AM -0700, Leiden, Soren wrote:
>
> > Is it at all possible to use mutt from netscape? i.e. clicking on a
> > mailto: spawns mutt properly--would be the main thing...
>
> Yes, but it's non-trivial. I have Netscape set up to spawn Mutt when I
> click a mailto link.
>
> You need to compile up a plugin for netscape. The stuff at:
>
> http://developer.netscape.com/software/sdks/mailnewssdk.zip
>
> is a good place to start. It includes example code for Elm. I found
> a version of this that included code for Mutt as well as several other
> mail programs, but nowhere in the tarball does it say where it came from,
> and I can't find it again, so I've put it in my FTP directory:
>
> ftp://ftp.exit109.com/users/jeremy/netscape-altmail-0.1.tar.gz
>
> It required a significant amount of hacking to make it work, though that
> may have been system-dependent problems.
>
> -Jeremy
