Interviewed by CNN on 17/4/2010 20:42, Jane Galt told the world: > MCBastos <[email protected]> wrote : > >> Weird. I just tested it. >> >> - Opened About:config, >> - created network.protocol-handler.external.mailto as a Boolean setting, >> - set it to "true." > > Mine has been set for a few weeks now. > >> - Then I set Outlook Express as default e-mail program (by using Windows >> "Set program access and defaults"). > > I dont allow OE on my computer.
I tried that... but I needed to keep OE handy to be able to check on it while I hand-hold over the phone stupid customers who insist on using it. At least it stays quiet if I don't use it and doesn't bother me -- not like its bully of a big brother, Office Outlook, which will take over e-mail settings *even if you never use it.* >> But I'm still using XP. Win7 is different in a lot of points, including >> in the way "default programs" are set. So maybe it needs some tweaks > there. > > OHHHH, still using XP. LOL This is my home machine, which is rather old, I admit -- but as I'm not a gamer, it has been fulfilling its expected role very well. My next machine won't have Windows 7 either -- I plan on moving to Linux, and having Microsoft-free evenings and weekends. Leave the crap at work and all that. >> Set values back, and it went back to normal. >> >> So I have no idea why this doesn't work for you. It should. > > Different OS, different email prog? The point in trying two different programs was that it worked with both, so the solution is not specific to one software. I don't feel it's necessary to install Pegasus just to run a test. The about:config setting is internal to Seamonkey, anyway -- it doesn't make any difference which OS or e-mail program you are using: either it tries to call an external program or it doesn't. However, if your Windows is telling Seamonkey that SM Mail is the default mail program, then, well, that's what it's going to call. I do system support for a living, and I found by bitter experience that "default e-mail program" in Windows is not a clear-cut thing -- there are apparently several settings that have to be changed. For instance, if I set Seamonkey as "default e-mail" using the Windows tool, it STILL will ask me on opening if I wish it to take over as the default e-mail program. That is, there is some setting that the Windows tool left out. My feeling is that this is a Windows problem, not a Seamonkey problem. It's possible that neither the Windows 7 "defaults" tool nor Pegasus is setting correctly the default mail program preferences. Sometimes, it takes some back-and-forth shuffling to make it work right -- change the default to another program and then change it back to Pegasus. It might work. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #192: runaway cat on system. *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.4 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
