[sclug] Googlemail as default mail app in Ubuntu 9.04

[Alan Pope]

Hi Neil,

There is things thing called Google... you may have heard of it :)

2009/10/6 Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>:
> Does anyone know how to set up 'Preferred Applications' such that googlemail
> is my preferred email client? ie, when I click on a mailto: link in a
> Firefox page, it opens a new tab or window with googlemail in it. I've tried
> setting the preferred mail client to Custom with a command of
> */usr/lib/firefox/firefox
> "http://mail.google.com"* but nothing happens. The default tries to open
> Evolution, which is no good to me.
>

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=google+mail+default+app+ubuntu

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/set-gmail-as-default-mail-client-in-ubuntu/

Cheers,
Al.