On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:51:51 -0800 John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote:
... > I am on a web page and there is a link for Contact Us. I know little of > html, but I think the code behind the link is "mailto." If I click on > it a window pops up on the desktop inviting me to configure Evolution. > Well, Evolution is not configured and never will be configured. I use > Sylpheed for my mail reader. I am very happy with Sylpheed and have no > intention of changing. > > So I went into Preferences > Applications in Iceweasel and noted that > for mailto only Yahoo mail and Gmail were listed. I don't want to use > either of them; I want it to launch a Compose Message window in > Sylpheed. So I deleted them. Now when I click on the Contact Us link in > the web page Iceweasel pops up a little box that says "This link needs > to be opened with an application: Send to:" -- and then I can click on > a button to choose the application. You don't say what version of IW you're running, but on mine 3.5.5) I do Prefs / Apps, and then select the dropdown 'Action' menu for the 'mailto' entry, which includes a choice 'select other'. IIUC, you can't invoke sylph directly, since there's no way to pass it the '--compose' option, so just follow these directions: http://howto-pages.org/mozilla.php Works like a charm. [I've been meaning to do this for a while; your post finally gave me the impetus :)] > And there is the annoyance. When I click on the button I get a Nautilus > browser window. Like I know where the Sylpheed executable file is > located or what it is called. And you MUST use this browser window to Doing: $ which sylpheed tells you what you want to know Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
