[Klug-general] Thunderbird not Kmail

[Margot]

Mike Rentell wrote:
> I have a friend in America who has successfully moved to Linux from the 
> offerings of the Boy God but he has one or two minor problems. This is 
> how he describes two of them:
> 
> '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/.'
> 
> He adds:
> 
> 'Thunderbird opens in Local Folders. I want it to open in Inbox, but I 
> can't find a way to set this.'
> 
> Both these are beyond me, anyone any bright ideas I can feed back 
> stateside?
> 
> Ta
> 
> MikeR
> 
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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 
assume he's 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:

1. Open Firefox

2. type "about:config" (without the quotes) in the address bar

3. Scroll down to see if there's an entry for
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto

(a) If the entry exists, right click on it & Modify the string to 
read "/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird" (without the quotes).

(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!).

For the other problem, I have no idea, sorry!
-- 
Margot