On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13:10AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds:
How about using the following in a script:
#!/bin/bash
firefox "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=$%7B@%7D"
Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:user@example.com.
-- Suvayu
I tried this and it works. It brings up firefox and a google page requesting my user id/password which I had to search for. All my Thunderbird mail goes through gmail via wildblue.net.
However the page it brings up is "compose" I found no way to view received e-mail?
That was the objective, to bring up compose addressed according to the mailto link. If you just want to view/read your emails, you can just change the url to "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox". If you want specific labels, you can try something like this: "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/<name_of_label>"
You can even link to specific email threads from your records/notes like this:
"https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/1394076b7582f296"
The above should take you to the current thread on _my_ Gmail account. Of course you can't view it since you can't login as me :-p. The hash in the url uniquely identifies the thread in my Gmail account.
Hope this helps.