From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Randby Subject: mailto link problem Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:03:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4EFCE398.4040407@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60650) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgO48-0000ZZ-5Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:03:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgO47-00010a-0f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:03:12 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:33310) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgO46-0000vs-Tn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:03:10 -0500 Received: by mail-iy0-f169.google.com with SMTP id b35so26373486iac.0 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:03:10 -0800 (PST) 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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.