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Thunderbird -remote question
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:23 pm
by dann
I want to set thunderbird as my default email client in ubuntu. This I have to replace evolution in my gnome settings. Not that difficult, but the problem I am having is finding he right parameter to pass to thunderbird -remote so that it opens up the new mail with the address in the to:
Following the directions on Mozilla's site I can put in:
mozilla-thunderbird -remote "mailto()"
But that is an empty compose window. I tried:
mozilla-thunderbird -remote "mailto(%s)"
But in the to field I get: mailto:
email@blah.com
What to do? I did try mozilla-thunderbird -remote "%s" but that does nothing.
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:59 am
by Karl
Try setting it to "mozilla-thunderbird %s" and leaving out the "-remote".
Re: Thunderbird -remote question
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:34 am
by treehead
dann wrote:...the problem I am having is finding he right parameter to pass to thunderbird -remote so that it opens up the new mail with the address in the to:
Following the directions on Mozilla's site I can put in:
mozilla-thunderbird -remote "mailto()"
But that is an empty compose window. I tried:
mozilla-thunderbird -remote "mailto(%s)"
But in the to field I get: mailto:
email@blah.com
What to do? I did try mozilla-thunderbird -remote "%s" but that does nothing.
;where are you passing the command from? i thought the syntax for mailto was:
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mailto:someone@somedomain.tld?subject=some subject
...and let the OS take care of what client to launch. maybe i'm misunderstanding.
;
treehead
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:30 pm
by dann
Gconf or something related to it is running in ubuntu when I click on email address in an app like Firefox it brings up evolution. I can change this under the gnome preferences to use Thunderbird instead.
Since I have Thunderbird running all the time; having it launch:
mozilla-thunderbird %s
does not work as it starts a new instance of Thunderbird and brings up the profile management window because my existing thunderbird session is using my profile. Thus the need to use mozilla-thunderbird -remote.
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:34 pm
by dann
I'm seeing some postings that I should use:
mozilla-thunderbird -compose %s
I thought I tried that but will give it another go when I get home tonight.
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:59 pm
by dann
dann wrote:
mozilla-thunderbird -compose %s
This worked perfectly! How did I miss that before? I blame Allan.