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Navigator standalone and pine [was: Re: Pine & Netscape]



kovacsp@egr.uri.edu (Peter Kovacs) writes:

> Anybody figure out how to get navigator standalone to launch a pine
> session when you click on a mailto?
> 
This was recently discussed at one of the emacs newsgroups.  I'll
simply forward the message in question since i doubt you'll find it
with DejaNews because of the "X-no-archive: yes" header entry.  

It works really fine for me using XEmacs and Gnus and works great as
well with pine.  The URL at the "http://developer.netscape.com/"; site
is slightly outdated, but going higher in the hierarchy you'll find a
search form which will turn out the correct location of the
"mailnews.html" page.  I think this would be a welcome packaging
project for any new maintainer.  Anybody interested in doing this
package?

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From: Christoph Wedler <wedler@fmi.uni-passau.de>
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Netscape & Emacs
Date: 17 Nov 1998 11:30:43 +0100
Message-ID: <hwhaf1qfw6k.fsf@schumann.fmi.uni-passau.de>
References: <d86riexs.fsf@finlande.tmdesign>
NNTP-Posting-Host: news.rz.uni-passau.de
X-no-archive: yes

[ note: header slightly edited for brevity ]

>>>>>"JT" == J-P Theberge <yesod@cam.org> writes:

 JT> Hi, Is there a way to tell Netscape to use emacs as my mailer when
 JT> I click on a mailto link?

[By http://developer.netscape.com/products/sdks/mailnews.html and
Karl. M. Hegbloom:]

 (1) Exit Netscape !
 (2) C-x C-f ~/.netscape/preferences.js
 (3) Delete lines with `user_pref("mail.SOMETHING'
 (4) Insert the following two lines (where HOME is the expanded path to
     your home directory

user_pref("mail.use_altmail", true);
user_pref("mail.altmail_dll", "HOME/lib/netscape/emacs.so");

 (5) C-x C-s
 (6) In your ~/.emacs

(gnuserv-start)
;;(setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent)

 (7) uudecode & unzip & untar [below] in HOME/lib
 (8) Invoke `make' in HOME/lib/netscape/

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end
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For the european crowd: you can find all the aforementioned stuff
somewhere under "ftp://ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/pub/internet/";.  I'm
currently offline and can't check the correct location, but you'll
easily find it looking around yourself.

                              Cheers, P. *8^)
-- 
   --------- Paul Seelig <pseelig@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de> -----------
   African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies
   Johannes Gutenberg-University   -  Forum 6  -  55099 Mainz/Germany
   ------------------- http://ntama.uni-mainz.de --------------------


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