Send e-mail

What's this?

The e-mail plug-in allows you to transfer a broadcast to your e-mail handler and to send e-mails containing information on a broadcast.

Using the plug-in

Using the plug-in is easy. You can simply right-click on a broadcast and choose the plug-in from the context menu. Or you export a broadcast into this plug-in by double-clicking on the broadcast and choosing "Send via e-mail" from the "Functions" menu on the left. In both cases, a n e-mail will be generated containing all the information on all the broadcasts.

Configuration

Use default e-mail handler is set as default and the plug-in will try to use the e-mail handler on your system which you have chosen as default. If this does not work or if you would like to use a different e-mail handler, please un-check this option and specify the program manually. Please also specify a parameter for sending the e-mail in the parameter line. In most cases {0} will do as default setting. If not, please enter the address you would like to send your e-mail to. {0} will then be replaced by "mailto:[youraddress@xyz.com]".

In order to change the setting for text layout and font, please click on Additional settings. The following pop-up window will open:

Your entry under "Parameter" will then be saved in a certain character set. UTF8 should be working in most cases. If you are having problems with umlauts or similar characters, you should try a different character set, e.g. ISO-8859-1 which is widely in use.

Finally, you may layout your message text according to your wishes. If your would like to do that, please read hier before doing so.

Examples for different configurations

Program	Application	Parameter
Standard Mail-Programm in Windows	Windows 95, 98, ME: C:\Windows\rundll32.exe Windows 2000 oder neuer: C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe	url.dll,FileProtocolHandler {0}
Standard Mail-Programm in Mac OS X	/usr/bin/open	{0}
Standard Mail-Programm in Gnome	gnome-open	{0}
Standard Mail-Programm in KDE	kfmclient	exec {0}
Microsoft Outlook Express	C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe	/mailurl:{0}
Microsoft Outlook 2003	C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE	/c ipm.note /m {0}
Thunderbird	Windows: PATHTOTHUNDERBIRD\Thunderbird.exe Mac OS X: /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin Sonstige: PATHTOTHUNDERBIRD/Thunderbird.sh	{0}
MacOS X Mail	/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail	{0}
KMail	Adapt the path given in the script, change it into an executable and specify it as the e-mail handler in the plug-in configuation window.	{0}