mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

[David Boles]

Does it work with the "mailto:" there?



On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Steven Stern <
subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:

> On 04/05/2013 08:42 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> > On 04/04/13 20:36, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> On 04/05/13 09:19, Steven Stern wrote:
> >>> It is.  It's got to be something to do with Chrome, but I can't find
> any
> >>> setting there.
> >>
> >> There are no settings for this in chrome.  It works fine here....  It
> is always a puzzle to find out what controls this and if it matters what DE
> is being used.  Anyway....  One more thing to check....
> >>
> >> Everything works for me fine using KDE.
> >>
> >> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler mailto
> >> handler is thunderbird
> >> /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop
> >>
> >> And in /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop
> >>
> >> Exec=thunderbird %u
> >>
> > Check your /usr/bin/xdg-email for a section called run_thunderbird and
> see if you have a line that says:
> >
> > MAILTO=$(echo "$2" | sed 's/^mailto://')
> >
> > If not, you probably need to update xdg-utils.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> It's there. Again, the issue is NOT that Thunderbird is not getting
> launched, but the word "mailto:" appears in the email address if
> launched from a link in Chrome.  The address is just fine when the link
> comes from Firefox.
>
>
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