90071 - Mozilla does not appear in Windows List of Mail Applications

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Robert Turnbull]

(Win 2000)

Go to:

Control Panel | Internet Options | Programs Tab (Internet Properties)

The Mozilla is not included in the list of programs under the E-mail pick list.
It isn't listed under Newsgroups either.

Comment 1

[Mike Young]

Does anyone know whether this is related to MAPI ? I know windows does alot of
things involving default mail apps through MAPI. I don't remember how far
support has come, but it would be good to be able to specify the default mail
(and news) reader as mozilla.

Comment 2

[basic]

On Win98 at least Moz should be adding itself to these 2 registry keys

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Clients\Mail
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Clients\News
Should this be Mail Backend? Is this even a Mail issue?

Comment 3

[basic]

setting to Mail backend

Does bug 11057 cover this?

Comment 4

[Robert Turnbull]

Just checked... On Win2k at least the registry keys are missing.

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Investigation seems to be going on in bug 90502. This bug can't be duped to 
that one because that has turned into a hidden Netscape bug for some reason.

Comment 6

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** Bug 90502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[bobj]

Bug 90502 is related but NOT a dup of bug 90071.

Bug 90502 is about "Netscape 6 E-mail Client Doesn't Show Up On Windows XP
Startup Menu" which is specific to the (XP-only) start menu entry for E-Mail.

Bug 90071 was orginally about Mozilla email not appearing in the list of
email applications under
  Control Panel|Internet Options|Programs Tab (Internet Properties)

The XP start menu email is different from the default system email and the
list of installed email applications.

See BETA-HOWTO: Register an Internet Browser or E-mail Client With the Windows
XP Start Menu (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q297/8/78.ASP):

  NOTES:

  Registration as the default Start menu e-mail application is different from
  registration as the system default e-mail client or the registered mailto
  handler. The system default e-mail client is started when the user clicks
  Read e-mail from the Internet Explorer Tools menu. The registered mailto
  handler is launched when the user clicks an URL of the form 
  mailto:[e-mail]. The Start menu e-mail application is used when
  the user clicks the E-mail icon on the Start menu.

These bugs are related, in that if the XP start menu email registry is not set,
then it will use default system email.  From the same MS Howto:
  
  If there is no default Start menu e-mail application specified, then the
  E-mail icon on the Start menu will start the system default e-mail client.

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.4

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

reassigning to ssu and moving to 0.9.5.  I think this will work on XP, but given
that we don't support Simple MAPI yet, we didnt' want to do this on all platforms.

Comment 10

[Sean Su]

We need MAPI support before this can happen.

Comment 11

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.6

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.7

Comment 13

[Ian Tommins ('thelem')]

Will the vast majority of this not be fixed when Bug 91702 (Enable simple MAPI 
support in mail) is fixed? That bug is nsenterprise+, so will be fixed before 
0.9.6 is out.

If I understand correctly, once 91702 is fixed all this required is mozilla to 
add a registry entry or something.

Comment 14

[Sean Su]

*** Bug 69402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Sean Su]

I talked to Srilatha.  It looks like something happened when the MAPI code
landed on the trunk.  She agreed to look into this.  Reassigning this bug to her.

Comment 16

[Srilatha Moturi]

Sean figured out that, the cause of the problem is that the mapi files are not 
added to the packages-win file.
Reassigning to ssu

Comment 17

[Sean Su]

Attachment: patch v1.0

This patch will deliver the missing mapi files and also update the windows
registry to have mailnews appear in the list of available mail apps.  This does
not set mailnews as the default MAPI handler.  That is done by mailnews via the
preferences.

Comment 18

[Sean Su]

Attachment: patch v1.0 (ns tree)

Comment 19

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Comment on attachment 64936 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v1.0

sr=dveditz

Comment 20

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Comment on attachment 64957 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v1.0 (ns tree)

sr=dveditz

Comment 21

[Sean Su]

patches checked in.

Comment 22

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 120057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 23

[valette]

About Bug 120057 maked as duplicate : I now can select mozilla mail as an mail
application just it does'nt work.

Comment 24

[Sean Su]

I wonder if it's because of the switching happening via the control panels
(meaning outside of the mail code)?  The mail code does some file manipulation
depending on which OS you're running.

[e-mail], which OS did you see this happen on?

Comment 25

[valette]

I saw my problem and made the additional comments based on what I see on WINDOWS
XP professional US version with all availiable windows update patches included.

Comment 26

[valette]

To explain what I did :
    1) I checked the box in the mail news peference menu to make mozilla mail
the default mailer. The box is greyed. If I exit and restart, the chnage is lost
the box remains unchecked.
    2) I used the internet option menu from control panel and indeed was able to
see mozilla mail and put it as the default mailer application. It did something
as resatrting outlook, it proposed me to put outlook as the default mailer. If I
answer yes the value is changed back to outlook.

But using office XP, if I open an excell document and do "file"->"send to"->
"Mail to As attachement, I get an error:

"Either there is no default mail or the current mail cleint cannot fullfill the
messaging request..."

NB : mozilla mail is properly configured as I use it to read and send mail from
my windows box (when forced to use it due to nice microsoft proprietary format :-))

Comment 27

[Sean Su]

This sounds more like a new bug.  I've filed bug
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120359

Please add any new comments to bug 120359.

Comment 28

[esther]

reassigning QA to trix

Comment 29

[Trix Supremo]

verified on mozilla branch build 2002042506 that Mozila Mail is now an option
found in Email app pick list, but Mozilla Mail is still not an option for
Newsgroup apps to select.  Since the comments in this bug focused on the Email
App, this bug will be marked verified.  Please file another bug regarding
Mozilla Mail not a Newsgroup  App option if it is determined that that should be
the case.