And I often use xemacs vm for my email client. I wonder if the form submission would be more robust. Many users might just punt on submitting the typo/error info if they have to go configure something on their system.
________________________________________ From: Satish Balay [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 3:18 PM To: Jed Brown Cc: Nystrom, William D; petsc-dev Subject: RE: [petsc-dev] adding Report Typo and Errors link to manual pages On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Jed Brown wrote: > "Nystrom, William D" <[email protected]> writes: > > > When I click on your URL and then click on "Report Typos and Errors", I get > > a window > > that pops up to get me to setup evolution. But I don't use evolution. > > This is the same thing that happens if you click any mailto link in your > browser. You can change the default email client. It seems strange > that this configuration tidbit would still be a problem, but a more > braindead alternative is to do a form submission instead of email (the > form submission can just send email to petsc-maint, though it probably > needs a CAPTCHA). I supporse each web browser has its own procedure for configuring the default mail client. firefox provides the following doc to setup the default e-mail client. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-program-used-open-email-links But I guess - it doesn't support my prefered mail clinet: alpine. Satish
