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.
Thunderbird -remote question
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Re: Thunderbird -remote question
;where are you passing the command from? i thought the syntax for mailto was: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.
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mailto:someone@somedomain.tld?subject=some subject;treehead
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that it does not matter what one paints, as long as
it is well painted. This is the essence of
academicism. There is no such thing as a good
painting about nothing." --Mark Rothko
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.
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.