[Gimp-user] "Send by Email..." isn't working

[Freddy Freeloader]

Richard H. wrote:
>> Aren't most GNU/Linux distributions installing by default a mail
>> transfer agent like exim or postfix? Debian at least does this, and then
>> the plug-in works.
>>     
>
> Please consider that a mail server also has to be configured which is often a
> non-trivial thing that can't be expected from a normal desktop user.
>
>   
>> Maybe the solution would be to change the plug-in in order it calls the
>> preferred mail user agent, for example evolution or Thunderbird? This
>> would make it useful after all.
>>     
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> As Sven already said, I think xdg-email would be the best solution. GIMP just
> would have to execute "xdg-email --attach <filename>"
>
>   
Setting up exim4 isn't all that hard to do. 

Run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config as root.  Follow the instructions and 
set Exim up to use a smart host to send email.  It doesn't have to 
listen on any port except 127.0.0.1.  Set up the smart host as the smtp 
server for your isp--mail.example.com--and add your user name and 
password as follows to a single line in /etc/exim4/passwd.client :  
"mail.example.com:username:password" with url being your ISP's mail 
server and the username and password being your username and password 
for your ISP's mail server.  Don't include the quotes as I used them 
only for delineation from the rest of the sentence. 

Restart exim4, or edit /etc/exim4/passwd.client before running 
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, and the email function in Gimp will work 
as it should. 

Restart