Closed Bug 141965 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Does not register as Windows Default Mail Client

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Backend
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 207974

People

(Reporter: arnova, Assigned: mscott)

References

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

Even though I selected "Use Mozilla mail as default mail application", it
doesn't register itself to Windows as being the default mail client. Windows
still thinks that Netscape 4.x is the default mail client (as nothing no changes
were performed by Mozilla).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto Preferences
2. Select Mail & Newsgroups
3. Select "Use as default mail client"

Actual Results:  Other web related applications still don't think Mozilla mail
is the default mail client.

Expected Results:  Those applications should have known that Mozilla is the OS
default mail client.
QA Contact: gayatri → trix
I have seen a similar problem with making Mozilla the default mail client for OS
X.  I expect that the implementation is totally different between the two
operating systems, but thought I'd mention it here anyway.
The problem can be reproduced in the following way:
1) First install netscape 4.x and let it register itself as the default mail client
2) Next install Mozilla
3) After the installation the registry key
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command] still has the string value of
"C:\Program Files\Netscape\netscape.exe -m "%1""
4) Then try to go to Mozilla Preferences, Mail & Newsgroups, and enable "Use
Mozilla as the default mail application.
5) Back to the registry => still has the Netscape.exe value
6) Now when I manually edit the registry and change the value to @="E:\\Program
Files\\Mozilla.org\\Mozilla\\mozilla.exe -mail \"%1\"" its fixed.

I still think that mozilla forgets to write the root registry as well is this
shows obviously.

Please check my last comment (2002-05-17 by arnova).
I confirm having exactly the same problem !!
*** Bug 144769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
*** Bug 178266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 124724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 144456 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 145901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 146233 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 172984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirming on Windows XP.
This has been broken for a long time, and at least should be ASSIGNED, even go
as far to say it . The preference is always checked. Even if you uncheck it,
exit preferences, and reopen them, it has reverted back to checked.

I can't find the pref in prefs.js. Does anyone know what it should be?

Copying sspitzer because this looks like it may be related to bug #144828
*** Bug 192250 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 192886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The issue that started this bug off is still true.  I missed this bug during
a recent sweep of related issues; see my comments in Bug 77846.  This is
closely related to Bug 96717, but I don't think identical -- 96717 doesn't seem
to be asking for the mailto: to be assigned when Mozilla becomes the default,
it's asking for a mailto: checkbox on Preferences|Advanced|System.

The symptom in comment 13 is not the same as the issue that opened this bug.
Mozilla's checkbox is set based on the default value of
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail
and it is *not* stored in prefs.js

Clearing the 'Default mailer' checkbox is an odd case, because it doesn't say
which of the available clients should be made the system default.  Again,
see my comments in Bug 77846.

This is not part of Bug 144828, either.
One additional issue: this bug should depend on getting Bug 198547 fixed.
Cc'ing Minotaur developers.
*** Bug 208430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note that the duplicate has a patch in progress which appears to require some 
assistance; a single faulty line of code has been found.  Move your votes!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207974 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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