From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mailto link problem
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:55:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20420.1325199357@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> of "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:03:04 EST." <4EFCE398.4040407@gmail.com>
Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> wrote:
> This might be off-topic, but there has been discussion about this issue
> before on this list.
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/22550
>
> The problem is that the above discussion doesn't solve my problem. So
> here it is.
>
> On my old system (Ubuntu 10.04, Emacs 23.3, Org-Mode 7.8.02, default
> browser Firefox, default mail client Thunderbird), I could click on a
> mailto link in an org file and Firefox would open up Thunderbird. I
> could then put in the message and send it via Thunderbird. No problems.
>
> 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.
>
> My old system just worked without me customizing any variables. I didn't
> change org-follow-link, org-link-mailto-program, mail-user-agent, etc. I
> didn't mess around with /etc/mailcap or other stuff. The Emacs variables
> on my new system are identical to those I used with my old system and
> the html stuff in /etc/mailcap looks identical. I don't understand why
> the two systems behave differently.
>
One more thing - try the following from the command line:
firefox --remote "openURL(mailto:srandby@gmail.com)"
If that gets you back into emacs, then emacs is off the hook: a visit to
about:config in firefox is indicated.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-29 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 22:03 mailto link problem Scott Randby
2011-12-29 22:42 ` Nick Dokos
2011-12-29 23:03 ` Scott Randby
2011-12-30 18:48 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-12-29 22:55 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-12-29 23:12 ` Scott Randby
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