Closed Bug 252293 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

mailto: links will not open default mail application

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11459

People

(Reporter: rob.elm, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

If Mozilla Mail is configured not be the default email application "mailto:"
links will still attempt to launch Mozilla mail instead of your default email
application...  In this case it's Microsoft Outlook

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Select "Edit" > "Preferences" > "Mail & Newsgroups"
3. Uncheck "Use Mozilla Mail as default mail application"
4. Click Ok
5. Click on a "mailto:" link...


Actual Results:  
Error is produced... Mozilla Mail was launched and it shouldn't have been.

Expected Results:  
Launched the operating systems default mailclient, in this case it would be
Microsoft Outlook.
Keywords: mail3

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11459 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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