On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 04:29:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 02:02:11PM -0500, Patrice Levesque wrote: > > > > > attached a simple script that is use. set it executable and call this > > > from firefox, not mutt directly > > > > I believe there's no need for pyrotechnics :) > > > > As mutt supports mailto: URLs natively, this suffices: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > exec xterm -e mutt "$@" > > > What I actually ended up with was:- > > xfce4-terminal -e "mutt -F /home/chris/.mutt/muttrc $@"
a bit off topic but I think that the -F option is superflous (may not be). from the manual: Mutt will next look for a file named .muttrc in your home directory. If this file does not exist and your home directory has a subdirectory named .mutt, Mutt tries to load a file named .mutt/muttrc