__/ On Sunday 28 August 2005 21:54, [David L. Johnson] wrote : \__
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:11:27 -0400, John-Paul Stewart wrote:
>
> I can't find a way to convince firefox to use Sylpheed as my e-mail client
> when I click on a mailto: link.
>
> <SNIP>
>
>> Sure there is. Type "about:config" in the address bar. That'll show
>> you a page with the browser's current settings. Look for the item
>> "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto". If you can't find it, click the
>> "show all" button (which should be at right, just under the toolbar).
>
> Well, it wasn't there. there were a number of the sort
>
> network.protocol-handler.external
>
> including one *.mailto
>
> which was a boolean, set to true
>
> I added the one you said,
>
> network.protocol-handler.app.mailto user-set string sylpheed --compose
>
> with no effect.
The entry "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" will not exist by default.
Add it and put the call to your mail application in an external script.
See, for example, the Thunderbird-Firefox equivalent:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/06/11/linux-firefox-and-thunderbird/
Hope it helps,
Roy
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