GMail mailto: links in Linux with perl

Posted by hardwarehank, Sat Jul 22 07:44:08 UTC 2006

So, I removed evolution today so it would stop trying to configure itself. Then, I went and found a perl script that would send me to a gmail compose page. Here’s the result:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Open about:config
# Set the option "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto" to true
# Create the option "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" and set it
# to ~/bin/mymailer.pl
use strict ;
my $link = $ARGV[0] ;
$link =~ /mailto:(.*)/ ;
exec "firefox \'http://gmail.google.com/gmail?view=cm&fs=1&tearoff=1&to=$1\'";

Works wonderfully! I’m so happy I found this.

Tags: firefox gmail linux perl

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