mailto link in Firebird 0.7

smikesmith · Post by **smikesmith** » January 1st, 2004, 9:29 pm

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I find that a clicking Mailto: link in a doc launches a dialog "mailto is not a registered protocol". Have I broken something or is this a normal behavior in 0.7? Where does the registration for such protocols occur, in Firebird Prefs or in Win Registry?

Thunderbird is MailNews, and has registry entry for mailto protocol.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » January 1st, 2004, 10:21 pm

Try a search for "mailto is not a registered protocol" (all terms).

gorunmez · Post by **gorunmez** » January 1st, 2004, 10:41 pm

installing mozex extension worked for me
http://mozex.mozdev.org/installation.html
(on linux)

smikesmith · Post by **smikesmith** » January 2nd, 2004, 6:46 pm

mozex is apparently not recommended for this particular use in Windows, because the browser is supposed to do this without external assistance. I can get Mozex to open a mail compose window, but I can't seem to get the mailto name inserted.

Old psaulm119 · Post by **Old psaulm119** » January 2nd, 2004, 7:14 pm

smikesmith, I had a similar but not exactly the same problem. For me, I could get an email (T-bird) compose window to open up, but not with the intended recipient's email address inserted. However, I didn't get an error message. I had to add something to the protocol.

My solution was:
Go to Tools/FolderOptions/File Types. Select the URL Mail to protocol. Click on Advanced, then Edit. I had to insert the following to the end of the T-bird path:

-compose %1

This part goes after the thunderbird.exe" in my path.

Perhaps this will help.

smikesmith · Post by **smikesmith** » January 2nd, 2004, 8:01 pm

Paul,
There is no "FolderOptions/FileTypes" under Tools. I'm assuming you mean in Firebird.

I knew about the -compose for T-bird. Is there a list of other options somewhere?

smikesmith · Post by **smikesmith** » January 2nd, 2004, 8:04 pm

I'm getting the feeling I busted something somewhere along the way, perhaps in the NT registry, but I can't seem to find where the protocols should be registered, or how.

I can't seem to get "Send Page" to work, either, but I'm pretty sure it used to. BTW, the only "Send Page" right click option is to send as link, and I thought that there was supposed to be more choice in 0.7??