ftp:// URL interpretation of Thunderbird

[Mike Burger]

On Mon, March 28, 2005 11:13 am, Alex Evonosky said:
> Mike Burger wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure that I understand why this is a problem.  Thunderbird is a
>> mail client.  Firefox is a web browser...most (if not all) web browsers
>> handle the download when you click on an ftp:// URL.  Thunderbird's
>> behavior is to call the web browser to do just that.
>
> The above is true, yet the question remains, his email client is not
> opening the browser, it is opening a composer window.  His thunderbird
> is not understanding the "ftp://"..  It is using it as a "mailto:"

I'm afraid that I misread something, then...because the way I read it
seemed to indicate that it was, indeed, opening Firefox.  My apologies.

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