;;; mailclient.el --- mail sending via system's mail client. ;; Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: David Reitter ;; Keywords: mail ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . ;;; Commentary: ;; This package allows to hand over a buffer to be sent off ;; via the system's designated e-mail client. ;; Note that the e-mail client will display the contents of the buffer ;; again for editing. ;; The e-mail client is taken to be whoever handles a mailto: URL ;; via `browse-url'. ;; Mailto: URLs are composed according to RFC2368. ;; MIME bodies are not supported - we rather expect the mail client ;; to encode the body and add, for example, a digital signature. ;; The mailto URL RFC calls for "short text messages that are ;; actually the content of automatic processing." ;; So mailclient.el is ideal for situations where an e-mail is ;; generated automatically, and the user can edit it in the ;; mail client (e.g. bug-reports). ;; To activate: ;; (setq send-mail-function 'mailclient-send-it) ; if you use `mail' ;;; Code: (require 'sendmail) ;; for mail-sendmail-undelimit-header (require 'mail-utils) ;; for mail-fetch-field (require 'browse-url) (defcustom mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag (fboundp 'w32-set-clipboard-data) "If non-nil, put the e-mail body on the clipboard in mailclient. This is useful on systems where only short mailto:// URLs are supported. Defaults to non-nil on Windows, nil otherwise." :type 'boolean :group 'mail) (defun mailclient-encode-string-as-url (string) "Convert STRING to a URL, using utf-8 as encoding." (apply (function concat) (mapcar (lambda (char) (cond ((eq char ?\x20) "%20") ;; space ((eq char ?\n) "%0D%0A") ;; newline ((string-match "[-a-zA-Z0-9_:/.@]" (char-to-string char)) (char-to-string char)) ;; printable (t ;; everything else (format "%%%02x" char)))) ;; escape ;; Convert string to list of chars (append (encode-coding-string string 'utf-8))))) (defvar mailclient-delim-static "?") (defun mailclient-url-delim () (let ((current mailclient-delim-static)) (setq mailclient-delim-static "&") current)) (defun mailclient-gather-addresses (str &optional drop-first-name) (let ((field (mail-fetch-field str nil t))) (if field (save-excursion (let ((first t) (result "")) (mapc (lambda (recp) (setq result (concat result (if (and drop-first-name first) "" (concat (mailclient-url-delim) str "=")) (mailclient-encode-string-as-url recp))) (setq first nil)) (split-string (mail-strip-quoted-names field) "\, *")) result))))) (declare-function clipboard-kill-ring-save "menu-bar.el" (beg end &optional region)) ;;;###autoload (defun mailclient-send-it () "Pass current buffer on to the system's mail client. Suitable value for `send-mail-function'. The mail client is taken to be the handler of mailto URLs." (require 'mail-utils) (let ((case-fold-search nil) delimline (mailbuf (current-buffer))) (unwind-protect (with-temp-buffer (insert-buffer-substring mailbuf) ;; Move to header delimiter (mail-sendmail-undelimit-header) (setq delimline (point-marker)) (if mail-aliases (expand-mail-aliases (point-min) delimline)) (goto-char (point-min)) ;; ignore any blank lines in the header (while (and (re-search-forward "\n\n\n*" delimline t) (< (point) delimline)) (replace-match "\n")) (let ((case-fold-search t) ;; Use the external browser function to send the ;; message. (browse-url-mailto-function nil)) ;; initialize limiter (setq mailclient-delim-static "?") ;; construct and call up mailto URL (browse-url (concat (save-excursion (narrow-to-region (point-min) delimline) (concat "mailto:" ;; some of the headers according to RFC822 (mailclient-gather-addresses "To" 'drop-first-name) (mailclient-gather-addresses "cc" ) (mailclient-gather-addresses "bcc" ) (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-To" ) (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-cc" ) (mailclient-gather-addresses "Resent-bcc" ) (mailclient-gather-addresses "Reply-To" ) ;; The From field is not honored for now: it's ;; not necessarily configured. The mail client ;; knows the user's address(es) ;; (mailclient-gather-addresses "From" ) ;; subject line (let ((subj (mail-fetch-field "Subject" nil t))) (widen) ;; so we can read the body later on (if subj ;; if non-blank ;; the mail client will deal with ;; warning the user etc. (concat (mailclient-url-delim) "subject=" (mailclient-encode-string-as-url subj)) "")))) ;; body (concat (mailclient-url-delim) "body=" (mailclient-encode-string-as-url (if mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag (progn (clipboard-kill-ring-save (+ 1 delimline) (point-max)) (concat "*** E-Mail body has been placed on clipboard, " "please paste it here! ***")) ;; else (buffer-substring (+ 1 delimline) (point-max)))))))))))) (provide 'mailclient) ;;; mailclient.el ends here