Joseph N. wrote:
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> Jay Garcia wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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>>Joseph N. wrote:
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>>>I do not want Mozilla as my default email client. Is there any way to
>>>tell Mozilla's Mail&News component to stay in its corner (other than
>>>uninstallling and reinstalling without the M&N module)?
>>>
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>>In your Windows Explorer application do View / Folder Options / File
>>Types and scroll down to "URL: Mailto Protocol" .. Note what is listed
>>as the default mail app and edit if necessary.
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> That sounded so promising.... The Bat! is listed there, which is
> appropriate.
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> I just tried to click on a mailto: from MSIE, and I tried it again from my
> word processor. Both times only The Bat! loaded, not Mozilla. (Something
> else must have been involved earlier when Mozilla loaded from a mailto link
> in my word processing document.) So my system seems to have the right
> configuration. The problem is that Mozilla is not respecting the system's
> (my) choice of email client.
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> Unless someone can suggest a good reason for this, I'm going to consider it
> a bug.
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It's a bug, and has been for a long time (since Mozilla was started?).
I found a workaround in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56478 but it involves
uninstalling Moz and installing it without mail/news. :/
--Jason
