firefox insists on evolution, not kmail

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 05.10.2004 schrieb Trevor Smith um 22:14:

> Does anyone know how to set a "helper" application in firefox? Their site is 
> useless (can't find the info). Everytime I click a mailto: link, evolution 
> starts, but i prefer kmail.

> Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com

No fix but workaround:

Edit $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/[profile]/prefs.js and append following line

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/path/to/helper-script.sh");

The script file /path/to/helper-script.sh then contains something like:

 #!/bin/sh
 /usr/bin/kmail ${1#mailto:}

Alexander


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