Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 01:47:02PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote: You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use. Which Desktop is she using? Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper email address. How about using the following in a script: #!/bin/bash firefox https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailtourl=${@}; Where ${@} is any mailto url like this: mailto:u...@example.com. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 21 August 2012 21:56, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: If I understand what you want. My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days after the thread died. I have an option in my 'Applications' section that offers to use Thunderbird (my - your default email client), Gmail, or Yahoo for 'Mailto:' links. Other than that I now nothing more about it. http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2008/09/24/gmail-as-default-for-mailto/ We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 08/22/2012 05:12 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: How about using the following in a script: #!/bin/bash firefoxhttps://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailtourl=${@}; Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:u...@example.com. Thank you. I'll try it and see what happens. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 08/22/2012 06:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2008/09/24/gmail-as-default-for-mailto/ We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either. Perfect! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds: How about using the following in a script: #!/bin/bash firefoxhttps://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailtourl=${@}; Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:u...@example.com. -- Suvayu I tried this and it works. It brings up firefox and a google page requesting my user id/password which I had to search for. All my Thunderbird mail goes through gmail via wildblue.net. However the page it brings up is compose I found no way to view received e-mail? Interesting, Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box9 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13:10AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds: How about using the following in a script: #!/bin/bash firefox https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailtourl=${@}; Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:u...@example.com. -- Suvayu I tried this and it works. It brings up firefox and a google page requesting my user id/password which I had to search for. All my Thunderbird mail goes through gmail via wildblue.net. However the page it brings up is compose I found no way to view received e-mail? That was the objective, to bring up compose addressed according to the mailto link. If you just want to view/read your emails, you can just change the url to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox;. If you want specific labels, you can try something like this: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/name_of_label You can even link to specific email threads from your records/notes like this: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/1394076b7582f296; The above should take you to the current thread on _my_ Gmail account. Of course you can't view it since you can't login as me :-p. The hash in the url uniquely identifies the thread in my Gmail account. Hope this helps. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 21 August 2012 21:56, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: If I understand what you want. My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days after the thread died. I have an option in my 'Applications' section that offers to use Thunderbird (my - your default email client), Gmail, or Yahoo for 'Mailto:' links. Other than that I now nothing more about it. http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2008/09/24/gmail-as-default-for-mailto/ We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either. I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0a1 (Nightly) and this option is still there. -- David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 22 August 2012 16:08, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either. I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0a1 (Nightly) and this option is still there. 17! What about 15 16? Mozilla versioning is beginning to suffer hyperinflation. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 22/08/12 10:42, Suvayu Ali responds: That was the objective, to bring up compose addressed according to the mailto link. If you just want to view/read your emails, you can just change the url tohttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox;. If you want specific labels, you can try something like this: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/name_of_label You can even link to specific email threads from your records/notes like this: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/1394076b7582f296; The above should take you to the current thread on _my_ Gmail account. Of course you can't view it since you can't login as me :-P. The hash in the url uniquely identifies the thread in my Gmail account. Hope this helps. -- Suvayu Yes, that all works well. I signed in as bobgood...@wilblue.net and it brought up my gmail account, different i.d. and password. I found I could even configure gmail for white text on black which I prefer. Never found a way to log out? Not sure what I'll do with it but as I said earlier it's interesting and good to know. Thanks, Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box9 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 8/22/2012 11:19 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 22 August 2012 16:08, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either. I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0a1 (Nightly) and this option is still there. 17! What about 15 16? Mozilla versioning is beginning to suffer hyperinflation. This feature is still in 15 and 16. You should not pay any attention to the numbers. Just update to the next release for the security fixes, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. 15 16 are out there. !5 is scheduled for release Aug 28, 2012. And the Nightly will then be 18.0a1. -- David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:26:01AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I found I could even configure gmail for white text on black which I prefer. Never found a way to log out? Not sure what I'll do with it but as I said earlier it's interesting and good to know. You can click on your name on the top right, that gives you the option to log out. HTH -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
In other words: you enter to Gmail webpage, click on Write or New and write a new email. Or click on Reply and write your answer to a email received. All of this, you are doing it inside the Google Mail webpage. Is not a program. If you want use Gmail as a predeterminate email program, you have to set up an email client. In example: Thunderbird. It is 5 seconds. You enter your Gmail data (user and password) and Thunderbird does the rest. I hope you can understand what I wrote because I'm a Spanish speaker, and sometimes I don't know how to express my ideas in English very well. Regards, Lailah -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, it will open as what it is: a web browser. If you want open Gmail automatically, go to Thunderbird and set it up the Gmail account. You can use POP (download mails to your computer, leaving the originals in the server) or IMAP (synchronize all your folders and mails between server and your computer). This is as you like it. You will send and receive from Thunderbird (and configure it as default mail program). Hope this helps Lailah -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah lailah...@gmail.com wrote: ** Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ??? i mean, i know the difference between an email client and a browser, ... msg entered to gmail under FF tab... Thx, ... it will open as what it is: a web browser. If you want open Gmail automatically, go to Thunderbird and set it up the Gmail account. You can use POP (download mails to your computer, leaving the originals in the server) or IMAP (synchronize all your folders and mails between server and your computer). This is as you like it. You will send and receive from Thunderbird (and configure it as default mail program). *Hope this helps* *Lailah* -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 8/21/2012 2:04 PM, Jack Craig wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah lailah...@gmail.com mailto:lailah...@gmail.com wrote: __ Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ??? i mean, i know the difference between an email client and a browser, ... msg entered to gmail under FF tab... snip If I understand what you want. I do not believe that you can open FF and have it logged into Gmail. And IMHO, that would not be a good thing to do anyway. However you can have FF open to the Gmail login screen. Start FF goto the Gmail login URL then (in FF) Tools Options General Startup Home Page Use Current. That should set FF to Start on the Gmail login page. It works like that here when I just now tried it. -- David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: If I understand what you want. My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days after the thread died. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: If I understand what you want. My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days after the thread died. I have an option in my 'Applications' section that offers to use Thunderbird (my - your default email client), Gmail, or Yahoo for 'Mailto:' links. Other than that I now nothing more about it. Have a look. -- David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 08/19/2012 08:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the end result is easy for her to use.) You can create a new menu item for your browser (either manually or using alacarte) that handles the correct mime types for mail and adds the correct gmail URL to the command. I don't know how gmail's URL schemes work but you may need a wrapper script to munge it somehow (it looks like the requested URL is passed in as %u in the desktop files). Put it in '.local/share/applications' for a single user or '/usr/share/applications' to make it available to all users. Will probably take some fiddling to get it working right but I use this to run gnome-terminals with specific command line options. You probably want at least these two: MimeType=message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto; Categories=Network;Email; This is the .desktop I use for the terminal: http://fpaste.org/OIBt/ Regards, Bryn. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Question about Preferred Applications
My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the end result is easy for her to use.) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/19/2012 02:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the end result is easy for her to use.) You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use. Which Desktop is she using? - -- Larry Brower, CCNA Fedora Ambassador - North America Fedora Quality Assurance lbro...@fedoraproject.org http://www.fedoraproject.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJQMU1zAAoJEF1Xw4ZWTEoJIBMQAJHxcuGQyUliu11Z3vc8mch/ xcpfWLQmPOQbuVlxgQdsLDNwhMQoPHMtv2p3pDX+SsKDTnpOZDJIdNuOm2IaxpTZ uztYqgXd7+cFX8pSALmDJbZw9ub7SwU0OJ+HG6ISNRHi/TSl4CDUo1Lg9sY673VX UorNbpPMpEnZkMAZmsQk5o+0Kfwx14ncZWT1TjhF8uVexH65pm2iRJPNGNdIOavu /BgGqGoKhvM+KbFaeIAnc3qlW+1i5mTmmrldxtas9CWKSOTnZjnpXxL/YHgnLimX vKsbQS6nD85jjNq/ooOuMdn7O8k/m4WRarKbBdps7h83FkRC4JFRT5yd8EyFcTfj fuboe9RopAzl3rLS7mQ96M+b0ikXChzyKVwUvATWcamhUnDSwyWVJJ+coeRGfDoX b+0Jb2MZfgEC+vU/FbQL6yLZWchi5q5SdtXzrpkBW5ri4cYnwtO5mLcZlDX6vapL QBru7vbg5gGFtJi/BOOAQ1vRVEpHwLe8kW4sO2+C19fxQLpeoHlAsUHkVnx63Vwl TYrB1AG015drlb9ADM4hM3R9RedW0+5AtUnWzx1ser5zbg7HU+CgYybzqMrYoag3 1t7JbeU42cR5akZCqsBYvo736CdJgYvuwIM0Tg5bmNaB+h6Q30BpgJHcqcRu2P0t KWz2KTqyXBZp9ny/4FFN =DIub -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote: You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use. Which Desktop is she using? Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper email address. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
Am 19.08.2012 21:57, schrieb Joe Zeff: My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. and why not simply configure the gmail-account via IMAP in Tunderbird?! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Question about Preferred Applications
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/19/2012 03:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote: You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use. Which Desktop is she using? Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper email address. You could just configure Thunderbird to use Gmail's IMAP/SMTP servers. Im not sure if you can set it to use Firefox and have it open Gmail correctly or not. - -- Larry Brower, CCNA Fedora Ambassador - North America Fedora Quality Assurance lbro...@fedoraproject.org http://www.fedoraproject.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJQMVOKAAoJEPXCUD/44PWqeNIP/A96ONVwRid3yoqS6GGSvaIk U53kR2P8mxrsN71jofY616RtERqCJDpjdNfe03R8DL/EcTuJIfMJBh9TzNpN68Et 9u1ZflTxnI4fS8EaM0Akg3shrRQZBeOixdJFaVW6SQKD3yfP6+Fo8dyqOEYYaBOs rfJYbTOcf/VENuaJ/DQ7eY7eyzLnQnsT6ZnuxK0SryAH2dhL8sctBRov4je8jUIz avBewiHpjGLG4HMCpbV0+uqRVo0nEGyrG3RZ5Zr55EfcQSOQB48v5kLKwot4De4c +F3itYhJnvktxZ5bW/c+66bwW2+L1f6wSZHazwf1PmQRbDWGn3yEYegU/kGF5Vs6 9mXN7MvSK6L5BSAfeHhg6QhD2fC47YAEB0qGB1qZMwXmG43YhOFcYyeH9ncIokOo V5entfz+7LNKgAwNCbs1PRegxmWofSNRsOzl92I/1RbwAyau3vaKxfuMZN6Eusrz s9fyfgHb4e5aUEckux8hbxhCcFWHKpLwn1lHITb8kSVnYYAgJPgtL9te7f1Tdr7z u1Gl6HMtqi6oXtpg5d71swtvjvuZZE66wL+KXFXK6Wd1Gu6oCzncEiZB3MjRQCbu dzxZPC9Ylq93bl1A3cdCgxM+Kbd4yIW2yGfleDAtSwQ4YwXHaHKxS3Gxn//SVisE 9CA1bxNMfR76cnZTRUpL =pM3e -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org