268839 - thunderbird fails to become registered mail client

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 250675

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[MrJeff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

I am running as a normal user on windows 2000 (I do not have administrator access).

Whenever I run thunderbird it asks if I want thunderbird to become the default
mail application. Clicking yes appears to not do anything, and clicking the "do
not ask me again" tick box also makes no difference.

Also thunderbird isn't registered as default mail client, as if I type
"mail:[e-mail]" into either firefox or the start/run box I am told
"mail is not a registered protocol".

Uninstalling and reinstall thunderbird has not fixed the problem.

Thunderbird appears to create the registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Clients/Mail/(Default):REG_SZ:Mozilla Thunderbird
and a bunch of keys and folders in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Clients/Mail/Mozilla Thunderbird.

Unfortunatly I have no idea how to duplicate this bug on another computer, but
am happy to run any suggested tests to help track down the problem.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Run thunderbird, click "become default mail application", select "do not ask me
again".
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Should become default mail application, shouldn't ask again.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

> if I type "mail:[e-mail]" into either firefox or the start/run

That should be    mailto:[e-mail]  -- it's completely true that "mail:" 
is not a registered protocol.  What happens when you click the link as it 
appears (that is, appears in the bug in Firefox).

See bug 245532, bug 250675.  I think this bug is a dupe of the second.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reporter (MrJeff),  please state whether comment 1 helped you at all.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter, duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 250675 ***