From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: mailto link problem Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:55:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20420.1325199357@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <4EFCE398.4040407@gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50479) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgOtH-0002yg-9F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:56:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgOtF-0000JM-MQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:56:03 -0500 Received: from g1t0029.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.36]:32292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgOtF-0000J8-Ei for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:56:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Scott Randby of "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:03:04 EST." <4EFCE398.4040407@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Scott Randby Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Scott Randby 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