[solved] XFCE default mail client

ConnorBehan · 2007-09-11 03:30:15

In preferred applications in the XFCE settings manager the two simple questions appeared: default web browser and default mail client. I set these to firefox and thunderbird respectively, and XFCE indeed recognized that I meant Bon Echo and Mail/News. For the strangest reason, every hyperlink to an HTTP or FTP protocol will indeed open up in firefox and go where it should, but mailto links will do nothing. In firefox I searched about:config for all options containing the world "mail" and set them to enable as many things as possible. Gmail is smart enough to open mailto links because it overrides the default mail client behaviour and just opens up a Gmail compose window, which I'm sure many of you know. This is another one of those minor problems that I'm having alot of these days, so any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by ConnorBehan (2007-09-14 01:17:42)

fwojciec · 2007-09-11 04:36:36

maybe this will help:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=26461

ConnorBehan · 2007-09-14 01:17:30

It did... thanks!

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#1 2007-09-11 03:30:15

[solved] XFCE default mail client

#2 2007-09-11 04:36:36

Re: [solved] XFCE default mail client

#3 2007-09-14 01:17:30

Re: [solved] XFCE default mail client

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