Re: mailto in mozilla-firebird
On 18 Feb 2004, Mike M wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:41:51AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 17 Feb 2004, David P James wrote:
> > > On February 16, 2004 06:39, Michael Graham wrote:
> > > > Micha wrote:
> > > > > Is it possible to tell mozilla-firebird how to handle mailto links?
> > > > > I am using exim4 + mutt for mail.
> > > >
> > > > yep, http://mozex.mozdev.org/
> > >
> > > Or there's the way it's supposed to work (at least with recent versions
> > > of mozilla-firebird/firefox). You have to have Gnome installed
> > > (unfortunately) and from the Gnome control centre you have to do the
> > > following:
> > >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Working here without Gnome, I'm glad to say.
>
> I googled this this week and found people had troubles in general. What
> worked for me was to "right-button" click on the email address on the
> web page and select "Copy Email Address". Then go to your email client
> and paste the address into the To: field. Extra clicks, but it works.
> Haven't tried Firefox 0.8 yet, I'm using Firebird 0.7 from mozilla.org
> download site.
>
> --
I'm using Firebird 0.7 too. The author's website has a good description
of how to set up mozex, with examples. I just followed those and it
worked at once.
AC
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