From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 22:57:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD0C16A4E0 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:57:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay3.av-mx.com (relay3.av-mx.com [137.118.16.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3CB43D53 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:57:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.61] (HELO mx0.av-mx.com) by relay3.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 359635602 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:57:53 -0400 Received: (qmail 18968 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2006 22:57:52 -0000 Received: from dsl25232.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.113.232) by 0 with SMTP; 9 Aug 2006 22:57:52 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.113.232 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl25232.ywave.com Message-ID: <44DA686E.7060909@ywave.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:57:50 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060730) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <200608092253.k79Mr4wg017847@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200608092253.k79Mr4wg017847@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox amd mailto: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:57:54 -0000 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