Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:06:00 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox amd mailto: Message-ID: <02290631@bsam.ru> In-Reply-To: <200608092253.k79Mr4wg017847@clunix.cl.msu.edu> (Jerry McAllister's message of "Wed, 9 Aug 2006 18:53:04 -0400 (EDT)") References: <200608092253.k79Mr4wg017847@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 18:53:04 -0400 (EDT) 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, Consider reading the following thread (it helped me with firefox+emacs): http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=22333 WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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