On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 16:12, Florin Andrei wrote: > If you're like me, you like Mozilla (as a browser) and Evolution (as a > mail client) but you dislike the fact that they are "disconnected", i.e. > if you click on a mailto: link in Mozilla it doesn't launch Evolution, > here's a solution. > > 1. Upgrade to Mozilla-1.4 > Get the mozilla-1.4 source RPM from a Rawhide mirror. Or just use > http://rawhide.redhat.com/ > Rebuild it (rpmbuild --rebuild mozilla....). This can be a very lenghty > process, just have patience and let it run. Install the resulting > binaries. > > 1b. Optionally upgrade to Evolution-1.4 > Packages are here: http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/evolution/ > > 2. Install the Mozex extension in Mozilla > Go to http://mozex.mozdev.org/ and install the extension. Read the > instructions! (you must run Mozilla as root when installing; then run it > again once as root after installing Mozex then close it immediately; > after that Mozex is fully installed and you can run Mozilla as your > normal user as before) > > 3. Configure Mozex to use Evolution for e-mail > Go to the Mozilla configuration (Edit / Preferences), search for the new > Mozex entry in the list, select the "Intercept mailto: links" checkbox. > Then add this string to the "Mailer command" entry: > > /usr/bin/evolution mailto:%a?subject=%s > > No need to add double quotes around %s, Mozex is smart. ;-) > > That's it. > Mozex doesn't seem to run with Mozilla-1.2.1 (the Red Hat 9 default) and > i didn't test this method with Evolution-1.2 (the Red Hat 9 default). > > -- > Florin Andrei > > "Never send a human to do a machine's job." - Agent Smith > DAM!!! Before I read this email, I just installed the Mozex extension to FireBird. I set it up (the wrong way) and clicked on a mailto link, it did not work. I then opened Evolution 1.4 just to check some mail and look at what I found, THIS EMAIL! NICE HOWTO!!! Works like a charm :-) Mark
