Current desktop detection / app access

[Jody Goldberg]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:19:12PM +0100, Dave Cridland wrote:
> A summary:
> 
> Traditional style would mean that one arbitrary 'to' recipient was 
> encoded directly, as 'mailto:foo at example.com' - any URI unsafe 
> characters would be URI encoded, although those should only appear on 
> the local-part, and should also be pretty rare. (I can't recall if 
> underscores are normal or not.)
> 
> Either way, any header fields, plus bcc and body, are encoded like 
> queries on URIs everywhere else. The funny exception would be the 
> 'to' header, if any, which was placed directly after the scheme.
 
There are some hidden gottchas to be wary of.  Different mailers
support different pieces of the spec.

eg
    mutt will not accept a mailto without a destination address.