How do I specify the default mail client?

[dvw86]

I noticed that when clicking on a mailto: link in Mozilla, that it opens up a new mail message in Mozila-mail. When clicking on a mailto: link in Firefox nothing happens. I would like it to open up a new mail message in Thunderbird. I tried to figure it out but had no luck. I'm using Puppy 1.0.4 and Ice. Any ideas?

[BarryK]

GuestToo posted a solution to this in the old forum, and I put that solution into the Firefox Unleashed package so that it would be there without the user having to set it up -- set it up for Sylpheed I think -- or at least I think I did, it seems something has gone wrong.

...ah, just thought, that would be the Firefox PupGet package that has that fix, you're probably using a different Firefox?

Do a search, find the old posting.

[dvw86]

Thanks Barry. Yes I am not using the Pupget version of Firefox. I downloaded it from Mozilla's web site. I found GuestToo's old thread here. It is a little out dated though since Puppy has changed some since then. You are correct that Puppy is set for Sylpheed by default. For those of you who want to change the default to something else like Thunderbird or if you have a different version of Firefox, here are GuestToo's directions modified for Puppy 1.0.4.

Open /usr/sbin/mailto.sh as text.

Change the line

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exec sylpheed --compose "$@"

to something like

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exec thunderbird --compose "$@"

or whatever mail application that you want.

Run Firefox
Type this url in the address bar:

about:config

type in the filter box:

mail

network.protocol-handler.external.mailto should be set to true
if it isn't, double click it to change it to true

right click somewhere on the about:config page, and select:
New, String

Type or paste in:
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto

Then type or paste in for the string value:
mailto.sh

Now, when you click an email address in a web page, Thunderbird should pop up, with the address already in the address bar.

[disciple]

With newer versions of Firefox we seem to have problems with a space in the prefs.js key - see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 396#109396.
It seems the mailto.sh may be unnecessary as well.

[John Doe]

*edit, just saw the solved post, nevermind.