From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 20 14:06:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FAA106564A for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:06:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F231C8FC08 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:06:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 43D625C2A for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:19:18 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F19740D.7030903@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:02:53 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [SOLVED] A quick fix for Firefox mailto: issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:06:47 -0000 I don't know who else has come across this, or who even uses this particular combination of firefox and thunderbird. I use it for the sake of my users, so its just easier to be a roman in rome. I have setup IceWM as the standard though. In firefox when one clicks on a mailto: link it fails to work (default). After searching for hours and googling my brains out, changing settings and what not with zero success, the final answer was ridiculously simple: Manually set the mail command. Default doesn't work (for whatever reason- probably due to gnome or the lack of). To make things all right in the world click (on the menu bar in firefox): edit->preferences. Click the applications tab on the popup window, and look for mailto: and select "use other" and pick the mailer of your choice. Forget all the about:config settings and the other crap out there- it simply doesn't work. It probably has to do with the infiltration of gnome (and linuxisms), but the long and the short of it is it doesn't work for FreeBSD. This does. HTH someone in need (probably using google a month from now...) :)