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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: mailto link problem
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:42:46 -0500
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Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> wrote:


> ... 
> On my new system (Xubuntu 11.10, Emacs 24.0.92.1, Org-Mode 7.8.02,
> default browser Firefox, default mail client Thunderbird), an Emacs
> window in message-mode is opened when I click on a mailto link in an
> org-mode file. This is not what I want, I want the behavior to be like
> it was in my old system.
> 

So what is the value of org-link-mailto-program? Mine says

,----
| org-link-mailto-program is a variable defined in `org.el'.
| Its value is (browse-url "mailto:%a?subject=%s")
`----

and if that's the case for you as well, then org is off the
hook: you have to look downstream from browse-url to figure
out where it's going off the rails. In particular, check
if browse-url-mailto-function is set: if it is, try setting
it to nil and see if that gets things  back on track (not tested,
not guaranteed).

Nick