[Klug-general] Thunderbird not Kmail

[Mike Rentell]

Margot wrote:
> Mike Rentell wrote:
>> I have a friend in America who has successfully moved to Linux from entell
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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:
>>
>> '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 assHah! Excellent. I never knew of that little wheeze. Many thanks Margot, I've learned something and so will friend John in Maryland.

I'll pop it off to him right now.

Mike R
ume 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!

Hah! Excellent. I never knew of that little wheeze. Many thanks Margot, 
I've learned something and so will friend John in Maryland.

I'll pop it off to him right now.

Mike R