ftp:// URL interpretation of Thunderbird

[Alex Evonosky]

Mike Burger wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure that I understand why this is a problem.  Thunderbird is a
> mail client.  Firefox is a web browser...most (if not all) web browsers
> handle the download when you click on an ftp:// URL.  Thunderbird's
> behavior is to call the web browser to do just that.

The above is true, yet the question remains, his email client is not 
opening the browser, it is opening a composer window.  His thunderbird 
is not understanding the "ftp://"..  It is using it as a "mailto:"