Short: ARexx scripts to pass mailto: links from IBrowse to YAM or SimpleMail Author: Alexander Niven-Jenkins Uploader: Alexander Niven-Jenkins Type: comm/www Requires: IBrowse 1.2+, YAM 2.x or SimpleMail Architecture: m68k-amigaos Why were they written? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Plenty of these browser to email client arexx scripts popped up pretty soon after the release of the various browsers/email clients, however they tended to support multiple browsers and as such did not take advantage of all the features offered by a specific browser. I decided to write my own "clean" script that concentrated on IBrowse. Features ~~~~~~~~ Fully supports all mailto: link options offered by IBrowse including the new "&body=" element support introduced with IBrowse 2.3: mailto:xxx@xxx.xxx mailto:xxxxx mailto:xxxxx ?subject=xxxxx mailto:xxxxx ?subject=xxxxx&body=xxxxx And various combinations of the above: mailto:xxx@xxx.xxx?body=xxxxx Etc. Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copy the relevant script to somewhere on your computer. YAM - ib2yam.rexx SimpleMail - ib2sm.rexx See the scripts header for setting up IBrowse. Bugs ~~~~ Not a bug with the script per se, but I have recieved reports about this. If a link appears to have a "subject" element but no subject appears in the resultant mail or it is attached to the end of the email address this is not a bug with the script. The script is sent these values individually by IBrowse after it has parsed the link. However, do not go sending a report to the IBrowse authors either because it is not a bug in IBrowse. The webmaster of the page in question has coded the link incorrectly, although it may well work with Internet Explorer it is wrong, send a report to the webmaster. Notes ~~~~~ Unfortuntely SimpleMail (upto 0.19, the release at time of writing) does not provide an arexx command to set the message body of a new mail, therefore, even though the script contains all of the supporting code needed to handle the "&body=" element nothing is actually done with it.