[sylpheed:34654] Re: sylpheed & xdg-utils

[Emanuel Haupt]

nomnex <nomnex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be preferable for sylpheed to match the general
> convention used by most other email clients and accept: sylpheed
> [address]. The command "sylhpeed --compose" gives me some problem of
> interoperability. I can set the a custom command in some software (I
> use Fedora 15 lxde spin):
> 
> - Firefox
> - Osmo
> - ...
> 
> But I have a problem with:
> 
> - Shutter (a gnome photo manager)
> 
> There is no editable field in the preferences.
> 
> Any input?

I solved this with a simple wrapper:

--- ~/bin/mailto.sh begins here ---
#!/bin/sh
sylpheed --compose "$1"
--- ~/bin/mailto.sh ends here ---

Emanuel