172984 - Setting Mozilla as default mail programs does not make mail to registry entry - or is is changed back immediately.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 141965

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[blinklys]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826

This is the missing registry entry:

Key Name:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto
Class Name:        <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time:   9/23/2002 - 4:13 PM
Value 0
  Name:            <NO NAME>
  Type:            REG_SZ
  Data:            URL:MailTo Protocol

Value 1
  Name:            EditFlags
  Type:            REG_BINARY
  Data:            
00000000   02 00 00 00                                        ....

Value 2
  Name:            URL Protocol
  Type:            REG_SZ
  Data:            


Key Name:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\DefaultIcon
Class Name:        <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time:   10/6/2002 - 10:29 PM
Value 0
  Name:            <NO NAME>
  Type:            REG_EXPAND_SZ
  Data:            %ProgramFiles%\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Mozilla.exe


Key Name:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell
Class Name:        <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time:   9/23/2002 - 4:13 PM

Key Name:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open
Class Name:        <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time:   9/23/2002 - 4:13 PM

Key Name:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command
Class Name:        <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time:   10/6/2002 - 10:10 PM
Value 0
  Name:            <NO NAME>
  Type:            REG_EXPAND_SZ
  Data:            "C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" -mail

I don't know the NEW MAIL switch.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Java 1.4
2. Install Mozilla
3. Install Open Office
4. Set defaults to Mozilla, Open Office

Actual Results:  
Mailto is not reset off O-Express

Expected Results:  
see above registry add switch for opening new mail

Comment 1

[Torben]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141965 ***