Re: Default of send-mail-function

[Jason Rumney]

Reiner Steib wrote:
> IIRC, the "big" desktop environments (Gnome[1], KDE) also have
> something like a system mail handler.  Maybe
> http://www.freedesktop.org/ specifies some standard way.
>   

On Gnome, we could use gconftool -g 
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command
We'd probably also want to check 
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/enabled to ensure it is enabled.

If this information is available via dbus, that might be a better way of 
getting it.