137795 - mailto: and news: links in windows applications do not start Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 96717

(MailNews Core :: Simple MAPI, defect)

Description

[Frank Burleigh]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020416
BuildID:    2002041603

Clicking mailto: or news: links in windows applications opens Ourlook or Outlook
Express rather than Mozilla mail/news.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Paste a mailto: or news: link into most any Windows application (but probably
not a mozilla application ;-) then click the link.  Also try a mailto: link in
Start, Run.

Actual Results:  On an XP machine with Outlook installed, Outlook always
responds to the mailto: link even though I answered yes to Mozilla mail/news'
prompt to handle internet mail.  On my XP machine that does not have Outlook, OE
starts from mailto: links.  On both machines, OE tries to start when a news:
link is clicked.

Expected Results:  If mailto: and news: are checked on in prefs, then it seems
Mozilla apps should open when I click mailto: or news: links.

In Control Panel, Internet Options, Programs page, the email item is currently
set to "Mozilla 1.0.0+ Mail."  The newsgroups item is set to Microsoft Outlook
and there is no option to choose Mozilla.

There are bugs that might seem related--56478 and 11459 e.g.--but I think this
is quite different but possibly with similar underpinnings.  Mozilla has been
uninstalled, its registry keys removed, mozilla reinstalled and prefs for file
types and protocols flipped off then on.

See also bug 94302 which gets to the issue but has a summary that causes its
importance to be overlooked.

Comment 1

[Frank Burleigh]

Adding original reporter of 94302.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Have you set edit\preferences\Mail&News..\"Use Mozilla as default mail
application" ?

Du you run Mozilla as administrator ?

-> Simple Mapi

Comment 3

[Frank Burleigh]

Yes, on both XP machines "Use Mozilla as..." is on and in both cases I answered
Mail/News' prompt to "use mozilla as default mail handler" (whatever) as Yes. 
My account on both machines has admin privs, yes.  Is that helpful or not
helpful in this context? ;-)

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 144828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Reproduced with 2002061006-branch/Win2k.

Comment 6

[Martin Stumpf]

The reason for this bug is an uncomplete registration of mozilla mail in the
registry. The HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto key is not changed to mozilla mail.
If you execute a mailto: url in start|run outlook starts and the first question
is, whether outlook should be registered as default mailer.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command probably should be ...mozilla %1

The entry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\DefaultIcon is wrong too.

P.S.: Why doesn't mozilla bring different icons for each application with it?

Comment 7

[Aaron Kaluszka]

This is a dupe and will be fixed with bug 160141.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96717 ***

Comment 8

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup