On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:11:55 -0800, Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Very nice to have Firefox 1.0 in sarge now.
>
> But .... the mozex extension no longer works, it seems (and judging
> from the web-site hasn't been updated since September 2003).
>
> I used mozex with earlier versions of Firefox to bring up mutt in
> response to clicking on mailto links.
>
> Does anyone know of a way of doing this also with Firefox 1.0?
> I'd really rather not have to use Thunderbird for this.
I use pine, but a similar solution would presumably work for mutt.
To get pine to open Firefox mailto links, I have an executable at
/usr/local/bin/pine-helper.sh which reads:
#!/bin/bash
MAILTO=`echo $@ | awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} $1 ~ /mailto/ {print $2}'`
XTERM="/usr/bin/X11/xterm"
MUA="/usr/bin/pine"
${XTERM} -e ${MUA} ${MAILTO}
It handles ordinary mailto links, but doesn't deal well with more
complicated ones (with Subject:, Cc:, etc.) - so if someone can
suggest a more sophisticated bit of awk it would be appreciated.
Then, to get Firefox to use the script, put the following line in
~/.firefox/default/<profile>.slt/user.js
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/local/bin/pine-helper.sh"
);
(That's all one line.)
Patrick
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