Closed Bug 173194 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Add mailto handler to allow the use of third party email clients

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

x86
Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 33282

People

(Reporter: rodd, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

It would be great if Phoenix (and Mozilla) would allow you to use a third party
mail client when you click on mailto links.
Please query for existing bugs before reporting new ones. Duplicate bugs waste
valuable time that would have gone to making Phoenix better.  The right thing
here seems to me to be that we just use the system default which for GNOME linux
would be implemented either at bug 140635 or bug bug 128668. If people want to
override the system default or don't have a system default or don't use GNOME
then they'll  probably have to wait for the work over at bug 33282 which has a
patch that implements a generic mechanism for handling any protocol with a helper.

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you're actually working on fixing that problem. Thanks. 

I'm going to pick 33282 and dupe this bug there since that seems closest to what
the original report was suggesting. (although I think having both and defaulting
to the system setting first is the right way to go).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33282 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Mass verifiying of old duplicates.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Asa: see bug 256707 for one reason there are so many duplicate bug reports.
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