<div dir="ltr">Hi Mike<br><br><span name="intelliTxt">If you want Thunderbird to open
directly in your Inbox when you launch the application, go to " Account Settings -> <a href="http://askbobrankin.com/thunderbird_startup_folder.html#" style="border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important;" target="_blank">Server</a> Settings" and check the box that says "Check for new messages at startup." <br>
<br>This worked for me on Suse 10.3 and Thunderbird version <a href="http://2.0.0.14" target="_blank">2.0.0.14</a> (20080421).<br><br>Regards<br><br>Rob<br><br>ps did the QT rpms fix your Skype problem?<br><br><br></span><br>
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On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Mike Rentell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.rentell@ntlworld.com" target="_blank">michael.rentell@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Margot wrote:<br>
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Mike Rentell wrote:<br>
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I have a friend in America who has successfully moved to Linux from entell<br>
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the offerings of the Boy God but he has one or two minor problems. This is how he describes two of them:<br>
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'Thunderbird is set as the default mail client, but when I click an email address on a web page in Firefox, it opens Kmail. Do you know how I can change this? I can't find any way in Firefox or Thunderbird/preferences/.'<br>
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He adds:<br>
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'Thunderbird opens in Local Folders. I want it to open in Inbox, but I can't find a way to set this.'<br>
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Both these are beyond me, anyone any bright ideas I can feed back stateside?<br>
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Ta<br>
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MikeR<br>
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For mailto links in Firefox, it will default to the default mail app for whatever desktop he's using. As it's coming up with Kmail, I assHah! Excellent. I never knew of that little wheeze. Many thanks Margot, I've learned something and so will friend John in Maryland.<br>
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I'll pop it off to him right now.<br>
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ume he's<br>
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using KDE - Gnome users would default to evolution. You can change the preference within the desktop, but the best way to do it is to change it within Firefox itself so if he decides to experiment with other desktops it will still come up with the same mail client. Here's how to do this:<br>
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1. Open Firefox<br>
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2. type "about:config" (without the quotes) in the address bar<br>
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3. Scroll down to see if there's an entry for<br>
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto<br>
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(a) If the entry exists, right click on it & Modify the string to read "/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird" (without the quotes).<br>
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(b) If the entry doesn't exist, right click anywhere in the list & select New, String - enter the preference name as "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" (without the quotes) and the string value as "/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird" (again, without the quotes!).<br>
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For the other problem, I have no idea, sorry!<br>
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Hah! Excellent. I never knew of that little wheeze. Many thanks Margot, I've learned something and so will friend John in Maryland.<br>
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I'll pop it off to him right now.<br>
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Mike R<div><div></div><div><br>
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