Greetings, In order to bypass a possible "spam block" on my normal email client, I brought up the destination on their web page in Iceweasel, and clicked on their "mailto:" link. This opened a mail-composing window, into which I entered my message (with Cc: and Bcc: to my own address). I then clicked "Send". Since then nothing has happened. Seeking to try to track down what may have gone on when I did the above, I have tried to locate anything to do with email in Firefox itself. Complete blank! Can anyone point me to what this Iceweasel/Firefox email client is, what it does with emails composed as above, where it stores any copies, indeed where it stores anything at all to do with emails sent by this route? And what about any incoming mail? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding@wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 03-Mar-11 Time: 20:32:35 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
At Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:32:38 -0000 (GMT), (Ted Harding) wrote:
Can anyone point me to what this Iceweasel/Firefox email client is
Have you looked in Edit | Preferences | Applications? Search for "mailto" and see what program is associated with that "Content type". Also you could try filtering your about:config by the string "mail". Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------------ Every time you send an MS Office document, Bill Gates kills a kitten. ------------------------------------
Richard Lewis wrote:
Have you looked in Edit | Preferences | Applications? Search for "mailto" and see what program is associated with that "Content type".
Related: one of my computers has nothing in the Applications dialogue. How do I add a mail client? Puzzled, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work http://www.software.coop/products/
At Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:04:19 +0000 (GMT), MJ Ray wrote:
Richard Lewis wrote:
Have you looked in Edit | Preferences | Applications? Search for "mailto" and see what program is associated with that "Content type".
Related: one of my computers has nothing in the Applications dialogue. How do I add a mail client?
Hmm, this is a good question. So the Help button eventually leads you here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20file%20types#w_adding-downloa... treating "mailto:" as a "content type", but still allowing only the alteration of existing content types. I wonder what happens on this Firefox-without-any-Applications-configured when you attempt to follow a mailto: link in a document? Maybe it prompts you for a handler for the content type? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Changing%20the%20e-mail%20program%20used... suggests altering the application associated with the "Send link" option in the File menu. Thankfully I don't have to deal with the Firefox interface to Gecko too often. (I'm such a browser snob!) Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------------ Every time you send an MS Office document, Bill Gates kills a kitten. ------------------------------------
Richard Lewis wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
Related: one of my computers has nothing in the Applications dialogue. How do I add a mail client?
Hmm, this is a good question. So the Help button eventually leads you
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20file%20types#w_adding-downloa... treating "mailto:" as a "content type", but still allowing only the alteration of existing content types.
The right-click menu on a mailto has Copy Email Address, Properties and nothing else.
I wonder what happens on this Firefox-without-any-Applications-configured when you attempt to follow a mailto: link in a document? Maybe it prompts you for a handler for the content type? [...]
Nope, nothing happens. Send Link... does nothing either. If it prompted me, I'd've probably fixed it by now. It doesn't say anything to xsession-errors either. Very strange!
Thankfully I don't have to deal with the Firefox interface to Gecko too often. (I'm such a browser snob!)
Yes, it's not great, but it's what clients use and I can tolerate it. I'd quite cheerfully go hacking prefs.js if I had some idea what to do! Thanks anyway, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work http://www.software.coop/products/
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