I have been using KMail from kdepim 4.4.11.1 for quite a while and just upgraded to kdepim 4.8.3. I had been using dbusAddMessage provided by Kmail to move already created email messages from send-pr(1) to my outbox from a script. Now it seems dbusAddMessage is gone and I can't seem to find a replacement that works right.

I would set the environment variable MAIL_AGENT=/home/BSDKaffee/src/scripts/sendprbykmail.sh and send-pr would pipe the email through the script.
Where sendprbykmail.sh is:

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#!/bin/sh

# sendprbykmail.sh
# Send PRs from send-pr through KMail for KDE 4.x

# Location/name of temporary file
# DEFAULT: /tmp/kmail-pr-<PID>
TMPDIR="/tmp"
TMPFILE="kmail-pr-$$"

# Name of KMail mail folder used for outgoing mail
# DEFAULT: outbox
OUTBOX="outbox"

# Create a temorary file containing the output of send-pr
cat - > ${TMPDIR}/${TMPFILE}

# Check if KMail 4.x is running, if so place the PR in the outbox
if qdbus org.kde.kmail ; then
   qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail org.kde.kmail.kmail.dbusAddMessage ${OUTBOX} ${TMPDIR}/${TMPFILE}
   rm ${TMPDIR}/${TMPFILE}
   exit 0
# If KMail is not running, PR is saved
else
   echo "** PR not sent. Copy stored in ${TMPDIR}/${TMPFILE}"
   exit 1
fi

Since dbusAddMessage is gone, is there an equivalent qdbus command I could use? Thanks in advance for any advice.

I think that's because KMail is no longer in control of handling messages directly, but instead Akonadi does so. That said, I'm not sure what kind of interface is exposed over D-Bus by Akonadi itself.

If my guess is right, the objective of this is to send a email correct?
If so, you may wish to look at the various command line arguments to KMail, which should allow you to send a email that way (you may have to manually confirm it by clicking send however)

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 kmail -s <subject>  --body <text> [--attach <URL>] ADDRESS

is what you may be interested in, but indeed it doesn't send the message automatically.

bcooksley wrote:If my guess is right, the objective of this is to send a email correct?
If so, you may wish to look at the various command line arguments to KMail, which should allow you to send a email that way (you may have to manually confirm it by clicking send however)

I want to send a prepared email with the headers already filled out and feed it to KMail. I have looked at the command line args for kmail and ksendemail and it appears that they can only read the message body from a file. I would still have to supply the subject, address, cc, etc. on the command line. That wouldn't work for me since send-pr creates an actual email that should just be able to be sent as is. The old dbus interface allowed for a whole email message to be queued in the outbox.

For now I am using esmtp to mail my messages. Of course, the whole point of this was to avoid setting up another SMTP client.

You may wish to file a feature request in regards to this.