Getting kmail to work with OpenOffice 1.0

What we are trying to achieve

There are two functions that you may want to use kmail for in open office

1. Clicking a mailto: link in a document and launching kmail with the address inserted into the To: field

2. Attaching a document to an email usign the "File --> Send --> Document as email..." command

Openoffice provides a menu under "Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice.org --> External Programs" to allow setting an external email program.

Because of incompatible command lines passed to kmail you can't send the command directly to kmail but you need to create and specify a shell script to parse the commands before they reach kmail and change them into a format that kmail can handle.file:///home/james/Mail/kmail

A bit of background

What OpenOffice Sends

When clicking a mailto: link the following is what OpenOffice passes to the external program (on one line)

mailto:[email protected]?subject=Resume%20of%20James%20McDonald

When sending an attachment OpenOffice sends the following to an external program (on one line)

-compose "attachment='file:///home/james/OpenOffice.org1.0/user/temp/soffice.tmp/svcip.tmp/kmail-openoffice_0.html'"

What kmail needs to to be able to use this command line for mailto and attachments respectively is

What kmail expects

mailto

/usr/bin/kmail --composer [email protected] --subject "Resume of James McDonald"
or
/usr/bin/kmail --composer [email protected]

attachments

/usr/bin/kmail --attach "/home/james/OpenOffice.org1.0/user/temp/soffice.tmp/svcip.tmp/kmail-openoffice_0.html"


Now the Script

#!/bin/sh
address="$@"

logfile=/home/james/Mail/openoffice-to-kmail.log

echo $@ > $logfile


if [ `echo $address | grep -q -c "attachment"` -eq 1 ] ; then
	
	stringtochange=$address
	
	kmailstep1=`echo $stringtochange | cut -d= -f2`

	echo kmailstep1 $kmailstep1 >> $logfile

	kmailstep2=`echo $kmailstep1 | sed  s#^\'file://## -`

	attachtokmail=`echo $kmailstep2 | sed s/\'\"$// -`

	echo Atachtokmail $attachtokmail >> $logfile

	/usr/bin/kmail --attach $attachtokmail

	exit 0
fi

if [ `echo $address | grep -q -c "mailto:"` -eq 1 ] ; then 
	
	passtokmail=`echo $address | sed s/^mailto://`
	echo passtokmail $passtokmail >> $logfile

	if [ `echo $passtokmail | grep -q -c "subject"` -eq 1 ] ; then
		echo inside 2nd if >> $logfile
		emailaddress=`echo $passtokmail | cut -d? -f1`
		subject=`echo $passtokmail | cut -d= -f2`
		killspaces=`echo $subject | sed s/\%20/" "/g -`
	
		/usr/bin/kmail --composer $emailaddress --subject "$killspaces"
	else
		emailaddress=$passtokmail
		/usr/bin/kmail --composer $emailaddress
	fi
	
	exit 0

fi