[MERGE] Send actually *sends* the merge directive

[Goffredo Baroncelli]

On Monday 20 August 2007, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel has voted tweak.
[...]
> 
> On Mac OS X, it would be nice to be able to use Thunderbird, but none of
> the commands are in my path. I would be okay with explicitly setting the
> path to the "thunderbird", but I didn't see any way to do that.
> I did find that if I manually run:

I think that is not a bazaar job to call an email client. There are too many 
variabiles which are impossible to handle well in python.

I think that we have to add the option to call a script.
For example if the client name in the option contains a slash, then bazaar 
treats it as a script, and call it.

For example I made a script (which use dcop) which waits until a kmail windows 
composer get the focus, then attaches the file. So I am able to attach 
automatically a file to a "reply to" email (which are the 70% of the case 
where I woul use the send command). 

I have an idea how I can code that. But I wait until the actual code is added, 
then I can prototypize my ideas.

> 
> /Applications/Mozilla/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin 
> -compose to=john at arbash-meinel.com,from=me at testing.com,subject='Who the 
> hell are 
> 
you?',attachment='file:///Users/jameinel/dev/bzr/patches/send-attached3.patch'
> 
> It starts Thunderbird, and has a compose window with the attachment
> listed, and the right subject and to value. However, if I already have
> Thunderbird running, it gives me a pop-up saying that you can only have
> one instance at a time.
> 
> I don't know why this is still a problem, as I'm using Thunderbird
> 2.0.0.6, but it certainly isn't working.
> 
> Now, on Mac, I know that I can do "open mailto:john at arbash-meinel.com"
> and it will start a new compose window from my existing Thunderbird
> process. I haven't found any way to pass it anything other than the 
> email
> address (everything else I try just gives me "no such file"). I did find
> that I can do:
>    open 'mailto:John%20Meinel%20%3cjohn at arbash-meinel.com%3e'
> To give a full username + email address. Or if I want to send to 
> multiple
> addresses, you can do:
> 'mailto:' + urllib.quote('John Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>,Aaron 
> Bentley <abentley at utoronto.ca>')
> which gives
> 'mailto:John%20Meinel%20%3Cjohn%40arbash-meinel.com%3E%2CAaron%20Bentley%20%3Cabentley%40utoronto.ca%3E'
> 
> And sure enough, it composes to 2 people. But I wasn't able to create a
> subject or an attachment. ('subject=foo' just resulted in sending to 
> someone
> named 'subject=foo')
> Anyway, just because you don't work on Mac isn't a reason to block. 
> Though
> it would be nice if we could figure out how 'mailto:' is doing the right
> thing. It might be that Mac uses something similar to MAPI.
> 
> 
> 
> I didn't see any code in any of the commands to handle Unicode email
> addresses. So Lukáš Lalinský will be a poor address. (I still haven't
> figured out how to type š on either Mac or Linux. I can't find that u
> combining character.)
> Anyway, we need to figure out how we should be sanitizing the 
> parameters.
> (bzrlib.user_encoding I think.)
> 
> 
> I think we've already solved the encoding issues when a user *writes* a
> unicode message in their editor. Though we should really be testing that
> the rest of the email sending code is handling it properly. (obviously 
> it
> is failing somewhere for "Jöhn john at arbash-meinel.com").
> 
> 
> In some ways, I would be okay with merging it, even though it doesn't
> support Unicode. But if we do, then we need to open some bugs on it.
> 
> 
> For details, see: 
> 
http://bundlebuggy.aaronbentley.com/request/%3C46C1E17B.70700%40utoronto.ca%3E
> 



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