From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 23:07:20 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 5939616A4DE for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:07:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from mail.kuban.ru (mail.kuban.ru [62.183.66.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F34A43D53 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:07:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@bsam.ru) Received: from bsam.ru ([83.239.48.165]) by mail.kuban.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id k79N6l4V073173; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:06:57 +0400 (MSD) Received: from bsam by bsam.ru with local (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GAx7g-0004Gg-Hi; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:06:00 +0400 To: Jerry McAllister References: <200608092253.k79Mr4wg017847@clunix.cl.msu.edu> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:06:00 +0400 In-Reply-To: <200608092253.k79Mr4wg017847@clunix.cl.msu.edu> (Jerry McAllister's message of "Wed, 9 Aug 2006 18:53:04 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: <02290631@bsam.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Boris Samorodov 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 23:07:20 -0000 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