Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:57:50 -0700 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox amd mailto: Message-ID: <44DA686E.7060909@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <200608092253.k79Mr4wg017847@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200608092253.k79Mr4wg017847@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently installed Firefox 1.5 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. > Mostly it seems to work fine with some apparent finickyness > about odd character sets. Since it does not include Email, I > also installed Thunderbird which works as its own standalone. > > But, when I am looking at a web page that has a 'mailto:' in a > tag and I click on the link to send a message to whoever, nothing > happens - presumably because there is no mail handler in Firefox. > > So, how, in FreeBSD 6.xxx do I deal with this? Can I make it > call up something like a plugin or whatever to handle that mailto: > Email item. I haven't found anything that looks like a > configuration item for such as that. > > Thanks for any help you can give, > > ////jerry use about:config in Firefox and set network.protocol-handler.app.mailto to /usr/X11R6/bin/thunderbird There are similar settings to get thunderbird to open http links in firefox. HTH, Micah
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