Bug 11297

Summary: Need option to accept body on standard input
Product: Portland Reporter: Per Olofsson <pelle>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium    
Version: 1.0   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Per Olofsson 2007-06-17 10:24:09 UTC 
Hi,

I got this Debian bug report:

"xdg-email accepts an initial body with the --body command-line option.
However, with a sufficiently long email, this could run into command-line
length limits.  Thus, xdg-email needs an option to accept the body on standard
input instead.

- Josh Triplett"

https://bugs.debian.org/427728
Comment 1 Waldo Bastian 2007-06-24 15:40:30 UTC 
There is no general way to pass stdin to the e-mail client that eventualy gets loaded. I agree that the command line approach imposes undesired restrictions but until the developers of Linux e-mail clients agree on better standards for invoking these clients (through a standard dbus interface for e-mail clients for example) there is little that can be done.
Comment 2 Per Olofsson 2007-06-25 02:27:36 UTC 
But is this a reason for xdg-email not supporting stdin? Can't it accept input on stdin, but return an error if it is too long? That way the interface will be ready for when the e-mail clients are.

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