Re: Handling mailto protocol in Gnome

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 07:43, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running Gnome 2.2 on Linux Debian unstable. I am trying to set the
> mailto protocol to Evolution, since before when I clicked in mailto:
> link on a web page Galeon and Mozilla complained that mailto was not a
> registered protocol, but until know I haven't been succesful. In Galeon
> preferences I have found nothing related to mailto settings, so I have
> tried from the "File type and programs" advanced preference of Gnome
> menu and I have added a new service linking mailto to
> /usr/bin/evolution, but now the only thing I get when I click on an
> e-mail address is to open a nwe instance of evolution without addressing
> a new e-mail message.
> Any suggestion?

The command has to be /usr/bin/evolution "%s"

The %s get's replaced with the mailto:... text; when evolution gets that
as a parameter, it will open a new composer window to that address.

> Bye,
>                          Riccardo
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