How [Mutt] to send links from Firefox

[José María Mateos]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 01:10:36AM +0200, Mihai Lazarescu wrote:
> On Monday, October 14, 2019 at 17:46:24 -0400, José María Mateos wrote:
> 
> >I have set up Firefox so that mutt is the designed e-mail
> >client. However, when I click on "Email link...", the e-mail
> >body doesn't go into the text editor (vim, in my case).
> 
> Make sure that the link you follow includes the "body" property with some
> value, e.g.,
> mailto:someone at emailaddress.com?subject=Some%20subject&body=some%20body

I think the problem was that my desktop environment was doing something 
funky with the way it passed arguments to the mutt executable. After 
reading your e-mail I fixed it by telling Firefox to call a script for 
mailto: links, and the script is just:

#!/bin/bash

xfce4-terminal -e "mutt $@"

Cheers,

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José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/