My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the end result is easy for her to use.)
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On 08/19/2012 02:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the end result is easy for her to use.)
You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use.
Which Desktop is she using?
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On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote:
You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use.
Which Desktop is she using?
Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper email address.
Am 19.08.2012 21:57, schrieb Joe Zeff:
My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird.
and why not simply configure the gmail-account via IMAP in Tunderbird?!
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On 08/19/2012 03:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote:
You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use.
Which Desktop is she using?
Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper email address.
You could just configure Thunderbird to use Gmail's IMAP/SMTP servers.
Im not sure if you can set it to use Firefox and have it open Gmail correctly or not.
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On 08/19/2012 08:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the end result is easy for her to use.)
You can create a new menu item for your browser (either manually or using alacarte) that handles the correct mime types for mail and adds the correct gmail URL to the command. I don't know how gmail's URL schemes work but you may need a wrapper script to munge it somehow (it looks like the requested URL is passed in as %u in the desktop files).
Put it in '.local/share/applications' for a single user or '/usr/share/applications' to make it available to all users.
Will probably take some fiddling to get it working right but I use this to run gnome-terminals with specific command line options.
You probably want at least these two:
MimeType=message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
Categories=Network;Email;
This is the .desktop I use for the terminal: http://fpaste.org/OIBt/
Regards, Bryn.
Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, it will open as what it is: a web browser. If you want open Gmail automatically, go to Thunderbird and set it up the Gmail account. You can use POP (download mails to your computer, leaving the originals in the server) or IMAP (synchronize all your folders and mails between server and your computer). This is as you like it. You will send and receive from Thunderbird (and configure it as "default mail program").
Hope this helps Lailah
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah lailahfsf@gmail.com wrote:
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Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail,
Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ??? i mean, i know the difference between an email client and a browser, ... msg entered to gmail under FF tab...
Thx, ...
it will open as what it is: a web browser. If you want open Gmail automatically, go to Thunderbird and set it up the Gmail account. You can use POP (download mails to your computer, leaving the originals in the server) or IMAP (synchronize all your folders and mails between server and your computer). This is as you like it. You will send and receive from Thunderbird (and configure it as "default mail program").
*Hope this helps* *Lailah*
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On 8/21/2012 2:04 PM, Jack Craig wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah <lailahfsf@gmail.com mailto:lailahfsf@gmail.com> wrote:
__ Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail,
Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ??? i mean, i know the difference between an email client and a browser, ... msg entered to gmail under FF tab...
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If I understand what you want.
I do not believe that you can open FF and have it logged into Gmail. And IMHO, that would not be a good thing to do anyway.
However you can have FF open to the Gmail login screen.
Start FF > goto the Gmail login URL > then (in FF) Tools > Options > General > Startup > Home Page > Use Current.
That should set FF to Start on the Gmail login page. It works like that here when I just now tried it.
On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote:
If I understand what you want.
My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days after the thread died.
On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote:
If I understand what you want.
My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days after the thread died.
I have an option in my 'Applications' section that offers to use Thunderbird (my - your default email client), Gmail, or Yahoo for 'Mailto:' links. Other than that I now nothing more about it.
Have a look.
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 01:47:02PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote:
You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use.
Which Desktop is she using?
Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper email address.
How about using the following in a script:
#!/bin/bash
firefox "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=$%7B@%7D"
Where ${@} is any mailto url like this: mailto:user@example.com.
On 21 August 2012 21:56, David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote:
If I understand what you want.
My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days after the thread died.
I have an option in my 'Applications' section that offers to use Thunderbird (my - your default email client), Gmail, or Yahoo for 'Mailto:' links. Other than that I now nothing more about it.
http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2008/09/24/gmail-as-default-for-mailto/
We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either.
On 08/22/2012 05:12 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
How about using the following in a script:
#!/bin/bash
firefox"https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=$%7B@%7D"
Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:user@example.com.
Thank you. I'll try it and see what happens.
On 08/22/2012 06:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2008/09/24/gmail-as-default-for-mailto/
We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either.
Perfect!
On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds:
How about using the following in a script:
#!/bin/bash
firefox"https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=$%7B@%7D"
Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:user@example.com.
-- Suvayu
I tried this and it works. It brings up firefox and a google page requesting my user id/password which I had to search for. All my Thunderbird mail goes through gmail via wildblue.net.
However the page it brings up is "compose" I found no way to view received e-mail?
Interesting,
Bob
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13:10AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds:
How about using the following in a script:
#!/bin/bash
firefox "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=$%7B@%7D"
Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:user@example.com.
-- Suvayu
I tried this and it works. It brings up firefox and a google page requesting my user id/password which I had to search for. All my Thunderbird mail goes through gmail via wildblue.net.
However the page it brings up is "compose" I found no way to view received e-mail?
That was the objective, to bring up compose addressed according to the mailto link. If you just want to view/read your emails, you can just change the url to "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox". If you want specific labels, you can try something like this: "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/<name_of_label>"
You can even link to specific email threads from your records/notes like this:
"https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/1394076b7582f296"
The above should take you to the current thread on _my_ Gmail account. Of course you can't view it since you can't login as me :-p. The hash in the url uniquely identifies the thread in my Gmail account.
Hope this helps.
On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 21 August 2012 21:56, David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote:
If I understand what you want.
My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days after the thread died.
I have an option in my 'Applications' section that offers to use Thunderbird (my - your default email client), Gmail, or Yahoo for 'Mailto:' links. Other than that I now nothing more about it.
http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2008/09/24/gmail-as-default-for-mailto/
We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either.
I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0a1 (Nightly) and this option is still there.
On 22 August 2012 16:08, David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either.
I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0a1 (Nightly) and this option is still there.
17! What about 15 & 16? Mozilla versioning is beginning to suffer hyperinflation.
On 22/08/12 10:42, Suvayu Ali responds:
That was the objective, to bring up compose addressed according to the mailto link. If you just want to view/read your emails, you can just change the url to"https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox". If you want specific labels, you can try something like this: "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/<name_of_label>"
You can even link to specific email threads from your records/notes like this:
"https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/1394076b7582f296"
The above should take you to the current thread on _my_ Gmail account. Of course you can't view it since you can't login as me :-P. The hash in the url uniquely identifies the thread in my Gmail account.
Hope this helps.
-- Suvayu
Yes, that all works well. I signed in as bobgoodwin@wilblue.net and it brought up my gmail account, different i.d. and password.
I found I could even configure gmail for white text on black which I prefer. Never found a way to "log out?" Not sure what I'll do with it but as I said earlier it's interesting and good to know.
Thanks,
Bob
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On 8/22/2012 11:19 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 22 August 2012 16:08, David dgboles@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either.
I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0a1 (Nightly) and this option is still there.
17! What about 15 & 16? Mozilla versioning is beginning to suffer hyperinflation.
This feature is still in 15 and 16.
You should not pay any attention to the numbers. Just update to the next release for the security fixes, bug fixes, and feature enhancements.
15 & 16 are out there. !5 is scheduled for release Aug 28, 2012. And the Nightly will then be 18.0a1.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:26:01AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
I found I could even configure gmail for white text on black which I prefer. Never found a way to "log out?" Not sure what I'll do with it but as I said earlier it's interesting and good to know.
You can click on your name on the top right, that gives you the option to log out.
HTH
In other words: you enter to Gmail webpage, click on "Write" or "New" and write a new email. Or click on "Reply" and write your answer to a email received. All of this, you are doing it inside the Google Mail webpage. Is not a program. If you want use Gmail as a predeterminate email program, you have to set up an email client. In example: Thunderbird. It is 5 seconds. You enter your Gmail data (user and password) and Thunderbird does the rest.
I hope you can understand what I wrote because I'm a Spanish speaker, and sometimes I don't know how to express my ideas in English very well.
Regards, Lailah