In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >the simplest way to launch the user's standard mail client from a >Python program is by creating a mailto: URL and launching the >webbrowser: > >def mailto_url(to=None,subject=None,body=None,cc=None): > """ > encodes the content as a mailto link as described on > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html > Examples partly taken from > http://selfhtml.teamone.de/html/verweise/email.htm > """ > url = "mailto:"; + urllib.quote(to.strip(),"@,") > sep = "?" > if cc: > url+= sep + "cc=" + urllib.quote(cc,"@,") > sep = "&" > if subject: > url+= sep + "subject=" + urllib.quote(subject,"") > sep = "&" > if body: > # Also note that line breaks in the body of a message MUST be > # encoded with "%0D%0A". (RFC 2368) > body="\r\n".join(body.splitlines()) > url+= sep + "body=" + urllib.quote(body,"") > sep = "&" > return url > >import webbrowser >url = mailto_url(...) >webbrowser.open(url,new=1) > >(Excerpt from >http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/lino/trunk/src/lino/tools/mail.py?op=file&rev=0&sc=0) > >But this method is limited: you cannot specify a file to be attached >to the mail. And I guess that there would be problems if the body text >is too complex. > >Does somebody know about a better method? >It should be possible at least on Windows, since Acrobat Reader is >able to do it. . . . Portland <URL: http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-6281-53-799-798304-697089-0-0-0-1 > is the best standardization of this problem we have under Linux.
I'll address Windows in a subsequent follow-up. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
