Thunderbird as mailto handler from Firefox
Don Guy
Chuck McKinnis
<spamthis!mostly_...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All right, what's the catch here?
>
> I've searched high and low, and tried every combination of prefs.js
> edits I can find in an attempt to have Firefox use Thunderbird as the
> handler for mailto: URLs, but I'm not getting anywhere.
>
> At present, I have: (pardon the line wrap)
>
> user_pref("applications.mailto", "E:\\Apps\\thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe");
> user_pref("applications.mailto.parameters", "-compose %url%");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);
>
>
> What have I missed?
>
>
> -d.
>
>
Travel to my home page, take a look in my OS/2 section, and let me know
if the Internet Application Integration utility helps.
--
Chuck McKinnis
mcki...@sandia.net
Covenant Solutions
http://7cities.net/~mckinnis/
Don Guy
Chuck McKinnis
<spamthis!mostly_...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Chuck McKinnis wrote:
> >
> > Travel to my home page, take a look in my OS/2 section, and let me know
> > if the Internet Application Integration utility helps.
>
> Very nice--thank you!
>
> Is there a syntax available to have Firefox pass the mailto: URL to
> Thunderbird? I tried appending both "%url%" and "%1" to the e-mail
> client parameters, but that wasn't it.
>
>
> One small nit pick BTW, if I may... The install path for vprexx.dll
> appears to be locked at C:\ecs\system\iaiutil. Not everyone uses eCS. :-)
You should be able to install the base code to whatever directory you
key in. You can deselect the vprexx.dll from the install. If you
don't, it will force you to put it in the same directory as the base
(because the application doesn't require any LIBPATH entries of its
own). After installation, you can copy vprexx.dll to any directory in
your LIBPATH and use WarpIN to uninstall vprexx.dll.
PS - I am continuing to update the code.
Sid Gale
<spamthis!mostly_...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Is there a syntax available to have Firefox pass the mailto: URL to
> Thunderbird? I tried appending both "%url%" and "%1" to the e-mail
> client parameters, but that wasn't it.
>
See <http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html>
No parameter is needed.
--
Regards
Sid Gale
Don Guy
Sid Gale
<spamthis!mostly_...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>
> With respect to Firefox/Thunderbird integration, none of the articles at
> the above link were effective on my system.
>
> After using Chuck's integration tool, clicking on a mailto: link in
> Firefox will now open a mail composition window in Thunderbird, however
> adressee and (when available) subject information are not passed through
> to the new message. Hence my asking about parameter syntax.
>
That's very odd. I have:
user_pref("applications.mailto",
"D:\\Thunderbird\\thunderbird!lp.exe");
user_pref("applications.mailto.parameters","-compose");
(with no parameters after the -compose) and everything is passed into
Thunderbird as it should be. The links at
<http://www.uiconsulting.com/resources/url_tricks.htm> are useful for
testing.
Perhaps the Run! utility works some magic? Do you use it or do you
call TB directly?
For information, the syntax TB expects is (AFAIK):
-compose to=<address>,subject=<text>,cc=<address>, bcc=<address>...
The mailto url, however, looks like this;
mailto:<address>?subject=<text>&cc=<address>&bcc=<address>...
On my system, transalation from one to the other happens without
special action on my part. You can write a rexx procedure to translate
the url and call TB, and use that as the "applications.mailto"
application. I used to do it that way a few versions of TB/FF ago, but
no longer find it necessary.
--
Regards
Sid Gale
Chuck McKinnis
<spamthis!mostly_...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Sid Gale wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:22:29 UTC, Don Guy
> > <spamthis!mostly_...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a syntax available to have Firefox pass the mailto: URL to
> >> Thunderbird? I tried appending both "%url%" and "%1" to the e-mail
> >> client parameters, but that wasn't it.
> >>
> >
> > See <http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html>
> >
> > No parameter is needed.
> >
>
> With respect to Firefox/Thunderbird integration, none of the articles at
> the above link were effective on my system.
>
> After using Chuck's integration tool, clicking on a mailto: link in
> Firefox will now open a mail composition window in Thunderbird, however
> adressee and (when available) subject information are not passed through
> to the new message. Hence my asking about parameter syntax.
If using the OS2.INI facility, you should not need anything except the
-compose parm. Don't try and use both the OS2.INI and user_pref
together.