Mailto??

[Beartooth]

When I try to set another application to use Pine for sending email, it
either fails, or shows up with "Mailto:" in the start of the To: field --
and, what's worse, a semicolon at the end, which I have to cursor over to
and delete -- it won't let me just hit the down arrow and then the left
arrow, as I normally do to go to the end of a line.

This is irritating.

Is there a setting to change? It seems many apps use something called a
"Mailto protocoll," which I know nothing of ...

--
Beartooth Implacable, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
What do they know of country, who only country know?

[Gopi Sundaram]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Beartooth wrote:

> When I try to set another application to use Pine for sending email,
> it either fails, or shows up with "Mailto:" in the start of the To:
> field

In whatever application you are configuring to use Pine, instead of
setting the mail application to "pine", try setting it to "pine -url"

--
Gopi Sundaram
http://www.zrox.net/Mail/Pine/

[Alan Greenberger]

On 2006-12-18, Gopi Sundaram <gop...@cs.sc.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Beartooth wrote:
>
>> When I try to set another application to use Pine for sending email,
>> it either fails, or shows up with "Mailto:" in the start of the To:
>> field
>
> In whatever application you are configuring to use Pine, instead of
> setting the mail application to "pine", try setting it to "pine -url"
>

Here is how to do it from firefox to pine in Linux:
In the directory where your prefs.js file is, add the following line to
your user.js file (or create that file if it doesn't exist):
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/path_to/xmailto_script");

Executable script contains:
#! /bin/sh
rxvt_or_xterm -lots_of_options -e pine -url "$*" &