284385 - mailto links FORCE use of Outlook

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Brogan Wayfarer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

There is no way to change the pop3 mail client when using Firefox. Since Firefox
has no built-in mail, it forces the use of MS Outlook, and WinXP doesn't allow
non-MS mail programs to be "default". I use Agent for mail and news, and
therefore, when I click on a mailto link on a web page I get an error message
from Firefox telling me I need to configure Outlook, which I refuse to do.
Netscape allows me to use a built in mail client to send a message from a link.
Do I need to go back to Netscape as my default (only) browser? 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on ANY mailto link
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Error message from Firefox telling me to configure Outlook

Expected Results:  
It should have popped up a box to allow me to send an e-mail message, or spawned
Agent (or some other mail client)

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Firefox obeys the system setting for default mail handler. Here are some links
to help you out in setting the correct mail handler, system wide:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/332003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328326
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Default_mail_client
http://www.answers.vt.edu/ask4help/email/vtkb1516.htm

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 286947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change