Connecting to the users preferred email client

Mike Driscoll kyosohma at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 08:59:42 EST 2009


On Dec 4, 5:28 am, Tuomas Vesterinen <tuomas.vesteri... at iki.fi> wrote:
> If I want to open a html-page from Python code I can say:
>
>  >>> import webbrowser
>  >>> webbrowser.open('index.html')
>
> Is there a standard way to init an email in users preferred email client
> like Thubderbird, Evolution etc.?
>
> Tuomas Vesterinen

Check this thread out:

http://www.megasolutions.net/python/invoke-users-standard-mail-client-64348.aspx

Basically, the idea is to pass the mailto url to webbrowser.

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