204905 - When selecting to use MailNews as the default mail reader in windows, not all registry keys are set correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121369

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Dan Egli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

Problem:
  When I install Mozilla and select to use it as the default mail reader, it
sets the flags acordingly, EXCEPT when handling URLS. Any mailto: urls or news:
or nntp: urls launch Outlook Express. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch MailNews. 
2. Select YES to use it as the default mail reader
3. click on start -> run -> mailto:some@address

Actual Results:  
See OUTLOOK EXPRESS come up, not a MailNews composition window.

Expected Results:  
MailNews new message window should appear, and outlook express should NOT LOAD.

Proposed Solution:
   When a user says YES they want to use MailNews as the default mail reader,
set all the appropriate registry flags. See attachment for registry patch that
fixes this.

Comment 1

[Dan Egli]

Attachment: Registry patch to have Mozilla get called on MAILTO, NEWS, and NNTP urls - Bug in patch - new patch submitted

Comment 2

[Dan Egli]

Attachment: FIXED patch to call Mozilla for mailto, nntp, and news urls.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121369 ***