556173 - mailto wont use outlook express

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[papawdalton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 SeaMonkey/1.1.19
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 SeaMonkey/1.1.19

Seamonkey 2 and up wont use outlook express for the mailto client. I installed the latest version and selected NOT to use the mail client, yet if you want to send a link my mail it brings up mozilla mail, not OE. I uninstalled seamonkey 2 and put the older version on that would let you install the browser only, and the mailto works with OE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install version 2
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Actual Results:  
Just install the latest version.

Expected Results:  
you can't use any other mail client for links.

brought up your defaul mail client to send a link.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

is outlook express set as your default mail client?

Comment 2

[lenochod]

Duplicate to Bug 388224?

Comment 3

[papawdalton]

(In reply to comment #1)
> is outlook express set as your default mail client?

(In reply to comment #1)
> is outlook express set as your default mail client?

Yes it is. I had this problem once before but was hopeing they had resolve it by now, but it appears I'm the only one that this bothers. I tried editing about:config with no luck. Why would they not give the option to have the browser only as in the earilier versions. With those there is no problem.

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 11459?

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

papawdalton: Do you mean you've set network.protocol-handler.external.mailto to true when you said you edited about:config?

Comment 6

[papawdalton]

It's been awhile since I worked on it, I got the tip from a google search on config edits to resolve the issue. All I remember is that mailto was part of the confuration edit and probably switching true and false, but all the edits I found didn't work, mozilla mail would always come up, no matter what you did. The only thing I found that works is to have mail as an option upon installtion not to install.

Comment 7

[therube]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110511 Firefox/4.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.1

WFM when setting network.protocol-handler.external.mailto to true.

Clicking a link like mailto:test@somewhere opens Eudora, in my case.