"MailURL" offers a quick and easy way to tell a friend (or enemy ;)) about the page you're currently watching in your web browser (iCab, Opera, Internet Explorer, or Netscape's Navigator/Communicator). It creates a new message in Eudora, Claris Emailer or Outlook Express, placing the title of the page in the "Subject: " header, and the URL of it in the body. All you need to do then is fill in the "To: " header and send it.
I'm not planning to add support for other mailclients myself. It would require downloading, installing and learning how to script them. Way too much work for a freeware product. You get what you pay for ;)
If you would like to have support for other mailclients, and know how to script them, feel free to submit the necessary code snippet. I will add it to MailURL and attribute the code to you. MailURL has been made modular, so that it is quite easy to add support for other mailclients. All that needs to be done is write the code snippet for that particular mailclient. From there, it can be integrated in MailURL in a few seconds.
Many thanks to Christoph Sahm, who provided the code for Claris Emailer, and to Paul F. Heneganwho provided the code for Outlook Express.
In order to use MailURL with FinderPop, place a copy of "MailURL" in the FinderPop Items folder in your System Folder. That's it, but you can make it nicer:
MailUrl will only work if you launch it when your browser is the frontmost application. You can just remember that, or you can choose to prevent yourself from accidentally selecting it from within another app (nothing bad will happen - MailURL will simply tell it cannot find your browser) through the following procedure:
Make this truly contextual and have "MailURL" pop up in FinderPop's menu only when you're in your browser. To do this, you do the following: In the FinderPop Items folder, rename "MailURL" to
Without the quotes of course
For "nn" fill in any number you like. FinderPop uses the number to decide where in its pop-up menu menu it will show you the item. Use "00" to have it appear at the top of the menu. For further details, RTFM [that's "Read Turly's Fine Manual" ;)].
FinderPop rocks! :)
I don't use OtherMenu myself so I can't provide a detailed explanation, but someone informed me that MailURL works with it and that setting it up is similar to setting up FinderPop to use MailURL. If you already use OtherMenu you'll probably know how to do this. If not, I imagine it will be explained in its manual.
On first run, MailURL asks which e-mail client you want to use with MailURL. MailURL stores this info in the file "MailURL Preferences" in your Preferences folder. If you want to change to a different mailclient, just trash the "MailURL Preferences" file and run MailURL again - it will ask you which mailclient to use.
This is freeware. Do with it whatever you like, except sell it!
Use at your own risk. I take no responsibility whatsoever for whatever damage "MailURL" may cause to anyone or anything. Hey, it's free OK? ;)
There are currently no known bugs
Added support for Opera
Minor bug fix
Added support for Claris Emailer.
This made it necessary to, on first run, ask which e-mail client you want to use with MailURL. MailURL stores this info in the file "MailURL Preferences" in your Preferences folder. If you want to change to a different mailclient, just trash the "MailURL Preferences" file and run MailURL again - it will ask you which mailclient to use.
Btw, now that MailURL supports more than 1 e-mail client, it's a piece of cake to add support for more. Send in your code and I'll integrate it.
Now chops of that silly "Netscape: " part from titles in Navigator/Communicator.
Made some things a bit more efficient. Should run faster now.