FC5 Firefox and KMail

[Richard England]

Jack Gates wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 19:15, Nigel Henry wrote:
>   
>>> You lost me with the Main menu.  What application?
>>>       
>> Click on the Redhat icon on the panel (taskbar), then select
>> preferences, then preferred applications. The preferred
>> applications window gives you 4 choices. Webbrowser, Mail Reader,
>> Text Editor, and Terminal. You can just change the Mail Reader to
>> Kmail, and Firefox should now use Kmail rather than than Evolution
>> as default.
>>
>>     
>>>> This appears to be working ok. Firefox > Tools > Read mail,
>>>> opens up Kmail,
>>>>         
>>> I get no response, no errors
>>>       
>> Thats weird. You don't get any email client opening?
>>
>>     
>>>> and going to a website and finding an E-mail link opens
>>>> up Kmails composer ok.
>>>>         
>>> nothing here as well
>>>
>>>       
>
>   
>> Which FC version are you using?
>>     
>
> Not trying to be rude but you did not look real close at the subject 
> line. FC5
>
> Your instructions above are of no value for FC5
>
> I remember those settings from FC2, the configuration in FC5 is way 
> different.  I am still trying to figure out where things are and what 
> is not here any more and what is new that works better.  Things 
> changed a lot from FC2 to FC5.  I was real comfortable with FC2 
> because I used it for two years.  I made the change from FC2 to FC5 
> in one leap skipping over using FC3 and FC4.  I did an upgrade 
> install in about 4 hours from FC2, FC3, FC4, FC5, this was the only 
> way I could get the upgrade install to work.
>
>   
>> Nigel.
>>     
>
>   

I'm using Gnome on FC5.  I have three selection in the task bar at the 
lower left corner with the Fedora logo. They are,  "Applications", 
"Places" and "System".  Select "System" and in the pull up menu select 
"Preferences".  then  "More Preferences" then "Preferred Applications"

The applet that comes up has two tabs, one for  "Internet" and  one for 
"System".  You want "Internet".  At the bottom is a category called 
"Mail Reader" with a selector.  Set it to "Custom" and below that enter  
the path to Kmail.  I use thunderbird and I have it set as follows. 

thunderbird -mail %s

I don't know if you will need and option on the command (like -mail) but 
%s is the substitution for the string passed to the program representing 
the address to use.  You'll have to investigate the CLI for Kmail. You 
may have to use the full path to Kmail if it is not in your default PATH 
variable.

HTH

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