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Re: mozilla / iceweasel and mailto: links



On Thu 12 Feb 2015 at 17:42:56 +0000, Curt wrote:

> On 2015-02-12, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu 12 Feb 2015 at 08:41:00 -0600, Charles Blair wrote:
> >
> >>    I use claws-mail for e-mail.  When I am running iceweasel/mozilla
> >> and click on a mailto: link, no window for claws-mail is opened.
> >
> > A script, mailto-claws:
> >
> >   #!/bin/bash
> >   claws-mail --compose "$1"
> >
> > Use the script for "mailto" in Preferences/Applications.
> >
> 
> You're right, sorry, claws-mail being a terminal application (must the script
> be executable? I guess so).

Your guess is correct.

As for your suggestion in an another mail, it seems very sensible.
However, it does not work for me and I do not know why. Selecting
"Mail Reader" in Preferences/Applications looks like a good bet but
it does nothing. Even specifying /usr/bin/claws-mail has no effect.
Is a script really necessary when the options in Iceweasel seem so
clear-cut?

I use mutt, which provides /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt. I adapted that
for the script I gave.


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