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1 ;;; mailclient.el --- mail sending via system's mail client.
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2005-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 ;; Author: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
6 ;; Keywords: mail
7
8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
9
10 ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
13 ;; (at your option) any later version.
14
15 ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
19
20 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
22
23 ;;; Commentary:
24
25 ;; This package allows to hand over a buffer to be sent off
26 ;; via the system's designated e-mail client.
27 ;; Note that the e-mail client will display the contents of the buffer
28 ;; again for editing.
29 ;; The e-mail client is taken to be whoever handles a mailto: URL
30 ;; via `browse-url'.
31 ;; Mailto: URLs are composed according to RFC2368.
32
33 ;; MIME bodies are not supported - we rather expect the mail client
34 ;; to encode the body and add, for example, a digital signature.
35 ;; The mailto URL RFC calls for "short text messages that are
36 ;; actually the content of automatic processing."
37 ;; So mailclient.el is ideal for situations where an e-mail is
38 ;; generated automatically, and the user can edit it in the
39 ;; mail client (e.g. bug-reports).
40
41 ;; To activate:
42 ;; (setq send-mail-function 'mailclient-send-it) ; if you use `mail'
43
44 ;;; Code:
45
46
47 (require 'sendmail) ;; for mail-sendmail-undelimit-header
48 (require 'mail-utils) ;; for mail-fetch-field
49 (require 'browse-url)
50
51 (defcustom mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag
52 (fboundp 'w32-set-clipboard-data)
53 "If non-nil, put the e-mail body on the clipboard in mailclient.
54 This is useful on systems where only short mailto:// URLs are
55 supported. Defaults to non-nil on Windows, nil otherwise."
56 :type 'boolean
57 :group 'mail)
58
59 (defun mailclient-encode-string-as-url (string)
60 "Convert STRING to a URL, using utf-8 as encoding."
61 (apply (function concat)
62 (mapcar
63 (lambda (char)
64 (cond
65 ((eq char ?\x20) "%20") ;; space
66 ((eq char ?\n) "%0D%0A") ;; newline
67 ((string-match "[-a-zA-Z0-9_:/.@]" (char-to-string char))
68 (char-to-string char)) ;; printable
69 (t ;; everything else
70 (format "%%%02x" char)))) ;; escape
71 ;; Convert string to list of chars
72 (append (encode-coding-string string 'utf-8)))))
73
74 (defvar mailclient-delim-static "?")
75 (defun mailclient-url-delim ()
76 (let ((current mailclient-delim-static))
77 (setq mailclient-delim-static "&")
78 current))
79
80 (defun mailclient-gather-addresses (str &optional drop-first-name)
81 (let ((field (mail-fetch-field str nil t)))
82 (if field
83 (save-excursion
84 (let ((first t)
85 (result ""))
86 (mapc
87 (lambda (recp)
88 (setq result
89 (concat
90 result
91 (if (and drop-first-name
92 first)
93 ""
94 (concat (mailclient-url-delim) str "="))
95 (mailclient-encode-string-as-url
96 recp)))
97 (setq first nil))
98 (split-string
99 (mail-strip-quoted-names field) "\, *"))
100 result)))))
101
102 (declare-function clipboard-kill-ring-save "menu-bar.el"
103 (beg end &optional region))
104
105 ;;;###autoload
106 (defun mailclient-send-it ()
107 "Pass current buffer on to the system's mail client.
108 Suitable value for `send-mail-function'.
109 The mail client is taken to be the handler of mailto URLs."
110 (require 'mail-utils)
111 (let ((case-fold-search nil)
112 delimline
113 (mailbuf (current-buffer)))
114 (unwind-protect
115 (with-temp-buffer
116 (insert-buffer-substring mailbuf)
117 ;; Move to header delimiter
118 (mail-sendmail-undelimit-header)
119 (setq delimline (point-marker))
120 (if mail-aliases
121 (expand-mail-aliases (point-min) delimline))
122 (goto-char (point-min))
123 ;; ignore any blank lines in the header
124 (while (and (re-search-forward "\n\n\n*" delimline t)
125 (< (point) delimline))
126 (replace-match "\n"))
127 (let ((case-fold-search t)
128 ;; Use the external browser function to send the
129 ;; message.
130 (browse-url-mailto-function nil))
131 ;; initialize limiter
132 (setq mailclient-delim-static "?")
133 ;; construct and call up mailto URL
134 (browse-url
135 (concat
136 (save-excursion
137 (narrow-to-region (point-min) delimline)
138 (concat
139 "mailto:"
140 ;; some of the headers according to RFC822
141 (mailclient-gather-addresses "To"
142 'drop-first-name)
143 (mailclient-gather-addresses "cc" )
144 (mailclient-gather-addresses "bcc" )
145 (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-To" )
146 (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-cc" )
147 (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-bcc" )
148 (mailclient-gather-addresses "Reply-To" )
149 ;; The From field is not honored for now: it's
150 ;; not necessarily configured. The mail client
151 ;; knows the user's address(es)
152 ;; (mailclient-gather-addresses "From" )
153 ;; subject line
154 (let ((subj (mail-fetch-field "Subject" nil t)))
155 (widen) ;; so we can read the body later on
156 (if subj ;; if non-blank
157 ;; the mail client will deal with
158 ;; warning the user etc.
159 (concat (mailclient-url-delim) "subject="
160 (mailclient-encode-string-as-url subj))
161 ""))))
162 ;; body
163 (concat
164 (mailclient-url-delim) "body="
165 (mailclient-encode-string-as-url
166 (if mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag
167 (progn
168 (clipboard-kill-ring-save
169 (+ 1 delimline) (point-max))
170 (concat
171 "*** E-Mail body has been placed on clipboard, "
172 "please paste it here! ***"))
173 ;; else
174 (buffer-substring (+ 1 delimline) (point-max))))))))))))
175
176 (provide 'mailclient)
177
178 ;;; mailclient.el ends here