Link to email via thunderbird
  • majikinsmajikins August 2009

    Hi

    I'm using an ubuntu desktop and have LAMP setup for Simple Invoices among other things. I would like to be able to send invoices/quotes via Thunderbird mail client rather than through the interface. I am experimenting with coding at the moment and still am a bit of a noob. But I would like to try my hand at it. What I need is pointers on how to get variables to pass to command line and add a button to the invoice page to "send via thunderbird". I've tested the cli command : thunderbird -compose "to='email@domain',subject='dinner',body='How about dinner tonight?',attachment='file:///tmp/test'" - it works. Now I need to be able to send the pdf to it as well as the customer email etc.

    Thanks.
    S

  • justinjustin September 2009

    hey majikins

    when you send an email in Simple Invoices the PDF is generated on demand and then attached to the email

    you would have to write a script to first go to the PDF url in Simple Invoices and download to location x then attach to thuinderbird

    question: why the need to use thunderbird?

    let us know how you go

    cheers

    justin

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