[sclug] Googlemail as default mail app in Ubuntu 9.04

[Bo Hansen]

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

> From: Neil Haughton [haughtonomous at googlemail.com]
> Sent: 2009-10-06 20:32:33 CEST
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Subject: [sclug] Googlemail as default mail app in Ubuntu 9.04
> 
> 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.
> 
> Is what I am trying to achieve possible? I would ideally like it to open a
> browser tab on googlemail's sign on screen, or better still log in for me so
> I need only click on Compose.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Neil.
>