On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:03:04 -1000 Geoff Welsh <[email protected]> wrote:
> »Q« wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:21:07 -0500 > > "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"<[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> smbelcas wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a way, perhaps in auto:config, to set SeaMonkey to direct > >>> mailto: links to an outside application instead of to the > >>> SeaMonkey mail module? > >>> > >>> (I wasn't able to find anything about this in the preference > >>> panes, or in this google group.) > >> > >> Clicking on a mailto: link (in any browser) will open a fresh > >> compose window in whatever email application you *have set to be > >> your default email client*. > > > > Clicking links mailto: links in SeaMonkey will *not* do that in its > > default configuration. See Wolfgang's post for the pref which > > controls it. IMO, this is one of the things for which it would be > > nice to have a checkbox in the GUI; because the pref doesn't exist > > by default, there's no way for anyone to discover it, even given a > > working knowledge of the about:config mechanism. > > It probably never occurred to the developers of a mail/web combo > program to give users a way to /not/ use the mail/web in the program. Back when the extrenal handler preference was introduced, Mozilla Suite users also had the option of installing the browser component without installing the mail/news component, in which case the system's default handler for mailto: was used. That's the way most users who didn't want the Suite to use mail/news for mailto: links did, so not many users needed any GUI. Also, this hidden pref for mailto: links was covered in the Mozilla 1.0 faq, which at least made it a lot more discoverable. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
