146189 - Mozilla uses it's own mail client for handling mail even though Outlook Express is set as the default handler.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 122377

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Naumov]

Outlook Express is set as the system's default handler for mail and news. "Use
Mozilla Mail as the default mail application" is set to unchecked. Outlook
Express is set to check it's the default mail client every time it starts up and
it doesn't complain (ie, it *IS* the default mail handler). Yet, when I click on
a mail link in the Mozilla browser, it brings up the Mozilla Mail client and not
Outlook Express.

The machine on which the problem occured was initially running Mozilla 1.0rc1
without the Mozilla Mail component installed, thus, the problem did not arise.
However this always happens with 1.0rc2 with the Mail component installed.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dan Naumov]

Correction: as seen from the build number report, the build in question is
actually a fairly recent nightly and not 1.0rc2.

Comment 2

[mrroach]

I am experiencing the same thing using 1.0 RC2

Comment 3

[Adrian Ulrich]

This bug should be fixed..

Dan:
Please try a newer build

Thx!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122377 ***

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can't use external Mail applications in Mozilla because bug 11459 is unfixed.