Re: [Gnumed-devel] talkback client

[Ian Haywood]

J Busser wrote:
> At 8:01 AM +1000 3/30/05, Ian Haywood wrote:
>
> > P.S. does anyone have any comment on using the user's mailreader to 
> > send talkbacks?
>
>
> Does this mean "trigger" whatever mailreader is designated in the 
> operating system, to launch that app (if it is not already running) and 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
designated by the user.
Question: is there a convention for specifyin the user's preferred mail
client. (similar to the $EDITOR and $PAGER environment variables honoured
by many UNIX tools)
> to create a new mail message inputting automatically the "to" address, 
> the body of the message and possibly the subject line, as well?
yes, exactly.
> The idea being that, if feasible, this method would enable Tim 
> Churches's proposal, that users be able to visually identify, before 
> sending, the nature and extent of any confidential data that would be 
> transmitted?
yes

Ian

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