invoke user's standard mail client

[Paul Boddie]

On 4 Mai, 18:54, cla... at lairds.us (Cameron Laird) wrote:
>                         .
> Portland <URL:http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-6281-53-799-798304-697089-0-0-0-1>
> is the best standardization of this problem we have under Linux.
>
> I'll address Windows in a subsequent follow-up.

Portland [1] provides scripts (xdg-open, xdg-email...) which overlap
with the functionality provided by the desktop module:

http://www.python.org/pypi/desktop

The desktop module should even work with Windows as well, but it seems
that xdg-email has the edge in terms of providing the inquirer's
desired support for composing e-mail messages (on Free Software
desktops, anyway).

Paul

[1] http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/