(mailclient-send-it): Bind `browse-url-mailto-function' to nil to

use the external browser function to send the mail.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 6936c2ad17d..eb5d49387f8 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2010-11-24  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
+        * mail/mailclient.el (browse-url): Require.
+        (mailclient-send-it): Bind `browse-url-mailto-function' to nil to
+        use the external browser function to send the mail (bug#7469).
+
         * net/browse-url.el (browse-url-browser-function): Revert the
         default back to the previous value, since the new value broke
         mailclient.el.
diff --git a/lisp/mail/mailclient.el b/lisp/mail/mailclient.el
index dd5ec2dd388..2a5d77d4f74 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/mailclient.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/mailclient.el
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 
 (require 'sendmail)   ;; for mail-sendmail-undelimit-header
 (require 'mail-utils) ;; for mail-fetch-field
+(require 'browse-url)
 
 (defcustom mailclient-place-body-on-clipboard-flag
   (fboundp 'w32-set-clipboard-data)
@@ -122,7 +123,10 @@ The mail client is taken to be the handler of mailto URLs."
           (while (and (re-search-forward "\n\n\n*" delimline t)
                       (< (point) delimline))
             (replace-match "\n"))
-          (let ((case-fold-search t))
+          (let ((case-fold-search t)
+                ;; Use the external browser function to send the
+                ;; message.
+                (browse-url-mailto-function nil))
             ;; initialize limiter
             (setq mailclient-delim-static "?")
             ;; construct and call up mailto URL