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Elaborate on the necessary steps to make the mailto scheme handler scripts work. Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos@pitsidianak.is> |
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Useful scripts and files for use with meli
This directory includes various useful scripts and files that are contributed by the community and not actively maintained or supported.
If you believe something in this directory needs updates to work with the
current version of meli or there are bugs that need fixing, please file an
issue on our issue tracker!
Connecting to a Gmail account with OAUTH2
The script ./oauth2.py is a helper script to authenticate to a Gmail account using IMAP OAUTH2 tokens.
See meli.conf(5) for documentation.
If the script does not work and you're certain it's because it needs changes to work with Google's servers and not a user error on your part, please file a bug on our issue tracker!
Using meli for mailto: links
To use meli to open mailto: links from your browser place the mailto-meli and mailto-meli-expect scripts into /usr/bin
(or .local/bin, and adjust the path in the script accordingly).
Ensure all scripts are executable by your user account, if not set the permissions accordingly:
chmod u+x /path/to/mailto-meli
and
chmod u+x /path/to/mailto-meli-expect
Then set mailto-meli as program to open mailto links
in your browser.
E.g. in Firefox this can be done under "Settings" (about:preferences) which you can access from the menu button or Edit -> Settings.
General -> Applications -> Content-Type: mailto.
You can test that it works by clicking the system menu entry File -> Email link....
NOTE: that you need to have the expect binary installed for this to work.
expect is a scripting language used for interactive with interactive terminal applications like meli.