can I get default email client in command line?

[Alvin]

On Tuesday 24 November 2009 12:59:40 Donatas G. wrote:
> I am trying to write a Dolphin service menu that would allow to attach a
>  file to an email, but with a twist: I want the service menu to be
>  universal enough to guess which email program the user is using.
> 
> For that I need to find out how to get the name of the default email
>  program via shell.
> 
> Any ideas? Is there any dbus call I could make?
> 
> If it were just kmail, the desktop file contents would look like this:
> 
> [...]
> If I could get the default email program by executing some program in
>  command line I could proceed...

Take a look at xdg-email (in xdg-utils).