My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her
primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on
mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT,
there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that
could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something
that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can
either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the
end result is easy for her to use.)
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08-19-2012, 08:13 PM
Reindl Harald
Question about Preferred Applications
Am 19.08.2012 21:57, schrieb Joe Zeff:
> My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like
> to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird.
and why not simply configure the gmail-account via IMAP in Tunderbird?!
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08-19-2012, 08:32 PM
Larry Brower
Question about Preferred Applications
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On 08/19/2012 02:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her
> primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on
> mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT,
> there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that
> could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something
> that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can
> either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the
> end result is easy for her to use.)
You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or
Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use.
Which Desktop is she using?
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08-19-2012, 08:47 PM
Joe Zeff
Question about Preferred Applications
On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote:
You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or
Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use.
Which Desktop is she using?
Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email
application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's
possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper
email address.
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08-19-2012, 08:58 PM
Larry
Question about Preferred Applications
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On 08/19/2012 03:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote:
>> You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or
>> Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use.
>>
>> Which Desktop is she using?
>
> Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email
> application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's
> possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper
> email address.
You could just configure Thunderbird to use Gmail's IMAP/SMTP servers.
Im not sure if you can set it to use Firefox and have it open Gmail
correctly or not.
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08-20-2012, 10:00 AM
"Bryn M. Reeves"
Question about Preferred Applications
On 08/19/2012 08:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her
> primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on
> mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT,
> there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that
> could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something
> that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can
> either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the
> end result is easy for her to use.)
>
You can create a new menu item for your browser (either manually or
using alacarte) that handles the correct mime types for mail and adds
the correct gmail URL to the command. I don't know how gmail's URL
schemes work but you may need a wrapper script to munge it somehow (it
looks like the requested URL is passed in as %u in the desktop files).
Put it in '.local/share/applications' for a single user or
'/usr/share/applications' to make it available to all users.
Will probably take some fiddling to get it working right but I use this
to run gnome-terminals with specific command line options.
You probably want at least these two:
MimeType=message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
Categories=Network;Email;
This is the .desktop I use for the terminal: http://fpaste.org/OIBt/
Regards,
Bryn.
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08-21-2012, 12:41 PM
Lailah
Question about Preferred Applications
Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, it will open as what it is:* a web browser.
If you want open Gmail automatically, go to Thunderbird and set it up the Gmail account.* You can use POP* (download mails to your computer, leaving the originals in the server)* or* IMAP* (synchronize all your folders and mails between server and your computer).* This is as you like it.
You will send and receive from Thunderbird* (and configure it as* "default mail program").
Hope this helps
Lailah
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08-21-2012, 06:04 PM
Jack Craig
Question about Preferred Applications
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah <lailahfsf@gmail.com> wrote:
Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail,
Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ???
i mean, i know the difference between an email client and a browser, ...
msg entered to gmail under FF tab...
Thx, ...
*
it will open as what it is:* a web browser.
If you want open Gmail automatically, go to Thunderbird and set it up the Gmail account.* You can use POP* (download mails to your computer, leaving the originals in the server)* or* IMAP* (synchronize all your folders and mails between server and your computer).* This is as you like it.
You will send and receive from Thunderbird* (and configure it as* "default mail program").
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08-21-2012, 08:12 PM
David
Question about Preferred Applications
On 8/21/2012 2:04 PM, Jack Craig wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah <lailahfsf@gmail.com
> <mailto:lailahfsf@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> __
>
> Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail,
>
>
> Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ???
> i mean, i know the difference between an email client and a browser, ...
> msg entered to gmail under FF tab...
<snip>
If I understand what you want.
I do not believe that you can open FF and have it logged into Gmail. And
IMHO, that would not be a good thing to do anyway.
However you can have FF open to the Gmail login screen.
Start FF > goto the Gmail login URL > then (in FF) Tools > Options >
General > Startup > Home Page > Use Current.
That should set FF to Start on the Gmail login page. It works like that
here when I just now tried it.
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08-21-2012, 08:14 PM
Lailah
Question about Preferred Applications
In other words:* you enter to Gmail webpage, click on* "Write"* or* "New"* and write a new email.* Or click on* "Reply"* and write your answer to a email received.
All of this, you are doing it inside the Google Mail webpage.* Is not a program.*
If you want use Gmail as a predeterminate email program, you have to set up an email client.* In example:* Thunderbird.* It is 5 seconds.* You enter your Gmail data* (user and password)* and Thunderbird does the rest.
I hope you can understand what I wrote because I'm a Spanish speaker, and sometimes I don't know how to express my ideas in English very well.
Regards,
Lailah
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