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From: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: mailto link problem
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:03:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFCE398.4040407@gmail.com> (raw)

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.

Please don't suggest that I switch to Gnus or something. I don't have
time to switch, Thunderbird is easy to set up, it handles HTML well, it
reads feeds nicely, and I use the External Editor plug-in
(http://globs.org/articles.php?pg=2&lng=en) and emacsclient to write my
email using Emacs (as I am doing now). I keep my email addresses in org
files and I would like to be able to just click on a mailto link to
connect to Thunderbird instead of doing a kill and yank routine.

             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-29 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-29 22:03 Scott Randby [this message]
2011-12-29 22:42 ` mailto link problem Nick Dokos
2011-12-29 23:03   ` Scott Randby
2011-12-30 18:48     ` Eric S Fraga
2011-12-29 22:55 ` Nick Dokos
2011-12-29 23:12   ` Scott Randby

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