On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:19, Sid Boyce wrote:

Bernie Gardner wrote:

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On Thursday 06 January 2005 10:54, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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Bernie,

I'm about to betray my ignorance of setting default programs here, but I've found that Firefox "naturally" seems to respond to defaults set by Gnome's control center. If you have Gnome on your system, check its advanced settings and see if Evolution is the email program there. If it is, make the change there. Also, Mozilla Firefox has a plug-in called Mozex, if I remember correctly. This plug-in allows you to specify email, ftp, and other clients from within Firefox.

Best,

Pete

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm about to betray an even greater ignorance r.e. Gnome. I do have it installed, though I don't normally use it. The advanced settings, or control-panel2 as suggested by James Ogley sounds like a good place to look. However, I've just spent the last hour trying to get to it and failed. There is a control center entry in the gnome menu, but it doesn't provide any email settings, and I cannot find any way to start an advanced control center or control center 2.

Thanks again for the help!

Bernie Gardner w1az@arrl.net

The "about:config" suggestion is the easiest solution, find the mailhandler line, highlight it, right click and modify it to use thunderbird, kmail or whatever takes your fancy. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====

Ok, Again thanks for all the suggetions. I'm feeling more and more ignorant! I have tried both the control panel and about:confg approaches without success. Starting the control panel gives a window of choices which does not include any advanced icon. None of the available choices have any impact on the default mail program. The about:config approach doesn't show any mailhandler line. I've actually tried adding one, but it didn't work. I may not know the correct format for it though. I'm about ready to give up on it for now, but if there are additional suggestions I would greatly appreciate them. p.s. Nice to see the responses from fellow hams!

On Thu January 6 2005 1:50 pm, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

OK, Bernie, here's one last shot before you give up and break out the snow thrower...try mozex.

http://mozex.mozdev.org/

It's an extension for firefox that allows you to specify an email client from within firefox itself. It's a snap to install and from what I can tell it does nothing to degrade Firefox's performance. You can also find it listed in Firefox's extensions page at Mozilla.org.

Works with version .90, but NOT 1.0. :( Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."

here is the original post that showed me how to do it http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Dec/0443.html FYI: google search for suse lists is SWEET! enter "site:lists.suse.com firefox mailto" in google search and you'll see the article B-) On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:11 am, Bernie Gardner wrote:

On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:19, Sid Boyce wrote:

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Bernie Gardner wrote:

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On Thursday 06 January 2005 10:54, Peter N. Spotts wrote:

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Bernie,

I'm about to betray my ignorance of setting default programs here, but I've found that Firefox "naturally" seems to respond to defaults set by Gnome's control center. If you have Gnome on your system, check its advanced settings and see if Evolution is the email program there. If it is, make the change there. Also, Mozilla Firefox has a plug-in called Mozex, if I remember correctly. This plug-in allows you to specify email, ftp, and other clients from within Firefox.

Best,

Pete

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm about to betray an even greater ignorance r.e. Gnome. I do have it installed, though I don't normally use it. The advanced settings, or control-panel2 as suggested by James Ogley sounds like a good place to look. However, I've just spent the last hour trying to get to it and failed. There is a control center entry in the gnome menu, but it doesn't provide any email settings, and I cannot find any way to start an advanced control center or control center 2.

Thanks again for the help!

Bernie Gardner w1az@arrl.net

The "about:config" suggestion is the easiest solution, find the mailhandler line, highlight it, right click and modify it to use thunderbird, kmail or whatever takes your fancy. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====

Ok, Again thanks for all the suggetions. I'm feeling more and more ignorant! I have tried both the control panel and about:confg approaches without success. Starting the control panel gives a window of choices which does not include any advanced icon. None of the available choices have any impact on the default mail program. The about:config approach doesn't show any mailhandler line. I've actually tried adding one, but it didn't work. I may not know the correct format for it though. I'm about ready to give up on it for now, but if there are additional suggestions I would greatly appreciate them.

p.s. Nice to see the responses from fellow hams!