how to put mozilla linking to a email client?

[mmodem]

I would like to know how to link mozillafirebird to a email client, like for example kmail
To when clicking in a email address will open kmail

can any1 help?

[jrobbio]

Mozex from http://mozex.mozdev.org/ will do the trick.

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/#mozex goes straight to the xpi link

[daihard]

Mozex from http://mozex.mozdev.org/ will do the trick.

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/#mozex goes straight to the xpi link

Mozex seems to be the way to go. I never figured out how to launch kmail from "mailto," and I'd probably never have without the extension. Thanks!

For those using kmail, use the following syntax within the "Settings" dialog box:

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/usr/bin/kmail %a

Replace the path to kmail to suit your system.

[YFan]

I found Mozex setup a bit confusing. So this is what I did at the recommendation of another thread in this forum: start>control panel>folder options>file types (tab)>URL:Mailto protocol, click advanced, select Open, edit, and put in the Application used to perform action: "C:\[TB Directory]\thunderbird.exe" -compose %1. Bingo. Now TB is automatically used, and I disabled Mozex.

[jrobbio]

I found Mozex setup a bit confusing. So this is what I did at the recommendation of another thread in this forum: start>control panel>folder options>file types (tab)>URL:Mailto protocol, click advanced, select Open, edit, and put in the Application used to perform action: "C:\[TB Directory]\thunderbird.exe" -compose %1. Bingo. Now TB is automatically used, and I disabled Mozex.

Thanks YFan, when I finally decide to permanently adopt Thunderbird, this is what I will do. Mozex allows me to keep everything independent, which is good for testing purposes. Maybe your advice should be stickied in the Thunderbird and Firebird sections.

Rob

[YFan]

OK, but can someone please educate me on Mozex? I would like to learn it anyway even if I don't use it. I mean I got all confused as to what to put in what field and how they are determined. How do I decide?

[daihard]

OK, but can someone please educate me on Mozex? I would like to learn it anyway even if I don't use it. I mean I got all confused as to what to put in what field and how they are determined. How do I decide?

There are four options in the Settings dialog box: mailto, ftp, telnet and news. They are the embedded commands that Mozex can handle. For instance, "mailto" is used when clicking an e-mail address on a Web site will launch an e-mail client using the address as the recipient.

So if you want your favourite e-mail client to start when you click a "mailto" address on a Web site, click the "mailto" option first in the General category. Then in the Commands category, fill out the "mailer" field with the e-mail client application that's supposed to start. In my case, it's kmail, so I type in: "/usr/bin/kmail %a", where %a will automatically be replaced by the e-mail address you click.

[David James]

Mozex from http://mozex.mozdev.org/ will do the trick.

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/#mozex goes straight to the xpi link

Mozex seems to be the way to go. I never figured out how to launch kmail from "mailto," and I'd probably never have without the extension. Thanks!

For those using kmail, use the following syntax within the "Settings" dialog box:

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/usr/bin/kmail %a

Replace the path to kmail to suit your system.

Actually, that should be

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/usr/bin/kmail --subject %s %a

so that you can get the subject field passed if there is one. See the newly updated <a href="http://mozex.mozdev.org/screenshots.html">mozex screenshots</a> page. Hmmm, I wonder who supplied the second screenshot

[mmodem]

I puted thunderbird as the email client in the mozex extension

/usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird %a

but when i click in a email adress, nothing happens, the other email clients as kmail function ok

[daihard]

For those using kmail, use the following syntax within the "Settings" dialog box:

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/usr/bin/kmail %a

Replace the path to kmail to suit your system.

Actually, that should be

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/usr/bin/kmail --subject %s %a

so that you can get the subject field passed if there is one. See the newly updated <a href="http://mozex.mozdev.org/screenshots.html">mozex screenshots</a> page. Hmmm, I wonder who supplied the second screenshot

I wonder who!!! Thanks for the info. I discovered "%a" by fiddling with different format chars, and I sure had no idea you could pass the subject variable onto kmail as well. Where did you learn all that?

[YFan]

Thanks a lot daihard and everyone else. I feel like I learned something now .

[mmodem]

u still didnt explain how to put thunderbird working form the mozex extension...

If u had give a good look you should have seen that %s stands for subject and %a for email address
just give a look to http://mozex.mozdev.org/arguments.html

so it functions very well as
/usr/bin/kmail %s %a

but thunderbird with or without option dont function at all, and u didnt said nothing about it

great help u gave...

[YFan]

u still didnt explain how to put thunderbird working form the mozex extension...

If u had give a good look you should have seen that %s stands for subject and %a for email address
just give a look to http://mozex.mozdev.org/arguments.html

so it functions very well as
/usr/bin/kmail %s %a

but thunderbird with or without option dont function at all, and u didnt said nothing about it

great help u gave...

Actually I just tested it (with TB's directory of course) and it works perfectly well with mozex, at least for the mailto intercepting.

[mmodem]

i use firebird 0.6.1 and thnderbird0.1 and i cant put thunderbird working from the mozex extension

/usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird %s %a

i use mandrake 9.1 with kde

i also tried to put thunderbird as the default email and nothing works

[daihard]

u still didnt explain how to put thunderbird working form the mozex extension...
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but thunderbird with or without option dont function at all, and u didnt said nothing about it

great help u gave...

I don't know who you mean by "u," but just one thing... I did not provide any info on thunderbird because I don't know much about it. If I had tried, I would only have confused and/or misled you, which is why I remained silent on it.