open choice of mail client?
David Brightbill
than the OS X alternatives. However, I really wish I could cusotmize
the UI to choose what e-mail client is used when I want to send a
message. I'm a fan of the mail.app client shipped with Mac OS X.
Having to send messages from the built-in mozilla client is not "open".
Cheers,
David Brightbill
Jonas Jørgensen
That's a known bug (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11459).
As a workaround, try doing a custom install and toggle the mail client off.
/Jonas
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Neil
> As a workaround, try doing a custom install and toggle the mail client
> off.
I have heard that there is no custom install option for the Mac yet...
Torben
news:3CD7D9A3...@macguys.nospam.com:
Put user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true); in your
prefs.js or user.js file. This will make mozila use your system default mail
client. This should work on both Mac OS X and Windows, a few more lines is
needed on *nix, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11459 for
more information.
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Christian Biesinger
> Put user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true); in your
> prefs.js or user.js file. This will make mozila use your system default mail
> client. This should work on both Mac OS X and Windows, a few more lines is
> needed on *nix, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11459 for
> more information.
Well, for Linux, it's not enough to put the lines mentioned in the bug
in prefs.js/user.js, you also need to patch and recompile Mozilla.
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Mike
news:Xns920973ADF7E2Bto...@158.38.0.173:
I just tried this on Mozilla 1.0 rc2 (build id: 2002051006) because I
use Eudora and that's what I want opened when I click on a mailto:
link. So I added the above user_pref to my prefs.js file in
E:\Documents and Settings\mjl\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\6zezluq9.slt
I didn't see a user.js file anywhere.
However after doing this it still attempts to open Mozilla Mail
(which I installed to play with not to use as my main email).
And I use XNews as my news reader, so it would be nice if I could get
Mozilla to invoke it when I click on a news: url as well.
Anyway, I've been using Mozilla rc2 for the last week or so, and I've
been really happy with it (with the exception of a wierd mouse wheel
issue) and believe I will finally be able to replace IE as my main
browser (Thank God!).
Mike
Mike
news:Xns9216A3363D543An...@204.29.187.156:
> Torben <tor...@do-not-spam-me.mac.com.invalid> wrote in
> news:Xns920973ADF7E2Bto...@158.38.0.173:
>
>> Put user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto",
>> true); in your prefs.js or user.js file. This will make mozila
>> use your system default mail client. This should work on both
>> Mac OS X and Windows, a few more lines is needed on *nix, see
>> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11459 for more
>> information.
>
> I just tried this on Mozilla 1.0 rc2 (build id: 2002051006)
> because I use Eudora and that's what I want opened when I click
> on a mailto: link. So I added the above user_pref to my prefs.js
> file in E:\Documents and Settings\mjl\Application
> Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\6zezluq9.slt
>
> I didn't see a user.js file anywhere.
>
> However after doing this it still attempts to open Mozilla Mail
> (which I installed to play with not to use as my main email).
Quick update:
I started reading through the above mentioned bug, and saw a mention
of creating a new file user.js and putting the above user_pref in it.
That worked. Also when I re-examined the prefs.js file the user_pref
I had added had been removed, so that was obviously the wrong file to
modify.
Mike