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City LinUX sample scripts - mmailto

NAME

mmailto - wrapper script to invoke mutt from the mailto: URI in firefox.

SYNOPSIS

mmailto [[ -c <config_file> ] [ -d ] [ -v ]] | [ -V ]]

AVAILABILITY

mmailto is a Bourne shell script which should work equally well on all versions of UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X.

DESCRIPTION

mmailto passes the parameters from the mailto: URI to a virtual terminal running mutt.

OPTIONS

-c Use the specified configuration file in preference to the default "/usr/local/etc/mmailto.cf" . If no configuration file is found the script will continue with the default MUA mutt running in " terminal ".

-d Set debug mode on. The -x option is set within the shell and each command in the script is echoed to the console.

-v Doesn't do anything at all at present and probably never will.

-V Prints version details and terminates.

FILES

mmailto.cf.

EXAMPLES

In firefox select
"prefences", "applications", "mailto", "Use other ...".

Type in the full path name to the script as below.

	/usr/local/bin/mmailto

BUGS

The script is quite crude and has very little, if any, error checking. The consequences of unexpected input are untested.

AUTHOR

Clifford W Fulford, City Linux. Contact fulford@fulford.net or +44 (0)709 229 5385.

Trainer

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Clifford W Fulford BA(Hons), PGDip (Computing), PGCE. DES/DFE No. 7773034.

I started my career in computing in the days of CPM and C/CPM, building network operating systems and correcting bespoke software written to manage community transport booking and accounting systems.

I fist came across UNIX when called upon to migrate database systems from Mercator BBS to Thoroughbred Basic. Excited by the power and flexibility of UNIX in 1989/90 I studied the OS at City University night classes while developing my practical skills in a SCO Xenix environment during the working day.

In 1994 I was introduced to Linux by students in the School of Mathematics and Computing at North London University. Although initially sceptical of the ability of the fledgling OS to meet the requirements of large scale mission critical systems, I rapidly became a convert to Linux in a corporate environment.

I have now worked professionally as a systems manager and systems administrator with Xenix, AIX, HPUX, SunOS, Solaris and Linux in the City, Antwerp, McLean Virginia, Cairo, Birmingham and Nottingham for over 25 years

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