This may be OT, but I've experienced the mailto frustration in firefox as a debian user, and so offer a solution to other debian users.
The script reproduced below is an adaptation from thunderbird-helper.sh which I found at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MozillaFirefoxNotes You may want the kind of functionality from a mailto link that Thunderbird offers, but all I need from a mailto link is an email editor/sender. I still use pine (having been using it since way back), but the script should be adaptable to other MUAs. So, here's the script (save as pine-helper.sh and make executable; mine's in /usr/local/bin): #!/bin/bash MAILTO=`echo $@ | awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} $1 ~ /mailto/ {print $2}'` XTERM="/usr/bin/X11/xterm" MUA="/usr/bin/pine" ${XTERM} -e ${MUA} ${MAILTO} Then, to get firefox to use it, in <profile>/user.js, put user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/local/bin/pine-helper.sh"); (That's all one line.) It's imperfect ("?subject=whatever" will show up in the address) but otherwise effective. (I need to learn a little awk to fix that.) Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
