mozilla and Evolution

[M3 Freak]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 16:15, Peter Draksler wrote:
> Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > After much seek and destroy I have decided I still like mozilla,
> > But is there a way to tell mozilla to use evolution as its default mail
> > program instead of mozilla mail.
> > 
> > I did look through the preferences, so I already believe its not
> > possible, Just though some one may just have a work around?
> > 
> 
> I use Thunderbird and Firefox and installed the mozex extension to 
> achieve this functionality.  I believe there are extenstions available 
> for Mozilla as well.  Install the mozex extension and set the Mailto: 
> and Mailer commands to evolution.

There is an easier solution that doesn't involve installing anything:

1. Type "about:config" into the URL field in Firefox
2. Right click anywhere in the list of preferences
3. Choose New->String in the pop up menu
4. Type "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" for the name
5. Type "/usr/bin/evolution" (or the path to the mail app you use) for
the value
6. Restart Firefox

Now when you click on "mailto" links on websites, Evolution will fire up
a new email for you.  I have Firefox 0.8 and it works beautifully.  I'm
not sure if this will work with Mozilla or older versions of Firefox (I
suspect not).

Neat, eh?

Regards,

Kanwar
Systems Aligned Inc.
www.systemsaligned.com