How to change Default Email App?

[Richard S. Crawford]

This is in response to Dave's original post, which dropped out of my mailbox 
but which I found on the list archives.

Dave asked, "Anybody know how to set KMail to come up when I click a mailto: 
link, instead of Evolution? Is that a per-app process, or is there somewhere 
I can just change one setting?"

I think it's a per-app thing.  Others have suggested changing the default mail 
client in Preferences -> More Preferences -> Preferred Applications, but 
Firefox (I assume you're talking about Firefox) doesn't look at this.  
Firefox does its own thing.  Since Fedora seems to be GNOME-centric, they 
assume that when you click on a mailto: link in Firefox, you want Evolution.

I fixed this on my machine by opening:


~/.mozilla/firefox/default.***/user.js


(*** may be different on your system -- on mine it's nq9)

and adding this line:


user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/bin/kmail");


You have to restart Firefox for it to take effect.  The trick should work 
similarly in Mozilla (caveat: I don't use Mozilla, so I have no idea), but I 
have no idea about other browsers.

Hope that helps and that I'm not *too* off-base.  If you weren't talking about 
Firefox, I apologize for this waste of bandwidth.

-- 
Slainte,
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