On 6/22/05, Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

I use both Konqueror and Firefox and Kmail as my email client.
Of course Kmail automatically works with Konqueror whenever I click
on an email link. But when I click on an email link with Firefox, I get
an "Alert" message that reads: "mailto is not a registered protocol."

How can I fix Firefox so it will also call the Kmail email client?

Joseph, try this:

--Close Firefox
--edit your ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.***/prefs.js

--Add this line at the bottom (replace the proper path/filename of your kmail executable):
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird");

--make sure the file ends with a carriage-return/line-feed and save it.
--Start Firefox and test

This is how I set Thunderbird as my default email flient from within Firefox. Hope it works for you.

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