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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> >Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> writes:
> >
> >
> >>What do I have to do to make sure that clicking on links fire up the
> >>correct applications. For example:
> >>
> >>http -> firefox
> >>mailto ->  thunderbird
> >>pls -> xmms
> >>
> >>If from thunderbird I click on a http-link nothing happens, etc.
> >>
> >>For some strange reason this stopped working for me all of a sudden.
> >>
> >
> >Since it changed in more than one application, the first guess would
> >be a damaged mailcap file.

> Meaning? Where is this mailcap file then? How can I repair it?

~/.mailcap, normally, and your applications would have done the setup
for it.  You may need to consult the application documentation to get
everything they expect, but for a start, try adding (or fixing) an
entry like:
text/html; firefox %s
and if that helps, you can look for other types not being handled.