692224 - Expose network.protocol-handler.external.mailto preferences to GUI

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 173465

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Tristan Miller]

There now exists a network.protocol-handler.external.mailto preference which allows mailto: URIs to be passed to external mail clients.  (See Bug 11459.)  I understand that Firefox exposes this preference to the GUI, whereas in SeaMonkey it is accessible only via about:config.  Please consider exposing this preference to the GUI in SeaMonkey as well; despite its built-in mail client, many users still use other mail clients and would prefer mailto: links to be handled by them.  I think this is a common enough use case to make a GUI preference worthwhile.

Comment 1

[therube]

Often requested feature that should be there, & particularly bothersome to those who do not use SeaMonkey Mail & are unaware of the preference (which does not even exist by default, & must be manually created).

Comment 2

[therube]

Looks like FF includes "mailto" in it's Options | Applications (SeaMonkey's Preferences | Browser | Helper Applications).

Note that FF's "mailto" is configured to handle both an external mail client & also some web based mail (Yahoo & Gmail) too (also a worthy addition for SeaMonkey).