Tim van der Molen wrote:

Christian Bendele wrote:

Christian Bendele wrote:


In firefox's address bar enter "about:config" to get a list of all configuration variables. you can enter "mail" in the filter at the top, because otherwise they are too many for comfort.

then you have to make two changes:

change "network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto" to "TRUE"

and then create a new string variable (right mouse-click and click "new -> string") called "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto". Set this variable's value to the command line you use to start your mail client. A simple "thunderbird" does the job for that client, options like mail address, subject etc, if contained in the link you clicked, will automatically be used for the new mail.

Okay, I have to correct myself. While this does indeed work fine on my elderly lfs5.1 system and firefox-1.0.0 there seems to be some problem with firefox-1.0.7 on my brandnew system. In thunderbird the "mailto:"; part of the link gets included into the address part of the mail header. This will cause the mail to bounce. I'm not sure if that is a bug either in newer versions (later than 1.0.0) of firefox or thunderbird, or if something was changed on purpose... I'll try to find a solution, but maybe somebody else already knows one... :)

Christian


FWIW, on my LFS 6.1 system with Firefox 1.0.7 the "mailto:"; part is not included in both Mutt as Thunderbird 1.0.7.

Tim

I listened around, and asked a few people to try, and it seems to work in all cases but mine, which is funny if you take into account that I told all those people how to do it :P anyway, in general it seems to work, there seems to besome other problem with my own setup ...

Christian
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