It's a fairly simple issue to setup Firefox with your MUA in Microsoft Windows, be
it Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, whatever. But, with older text type email
programs in BSD and Linux, it's a bit harder.
I got tired of forgetting not to click mailto links in Firefox. You always get the same
old message about no program being associated with mailto. I don't have any fancy
X-Windows email programs. Just mutt on one box and pine on the really old box. In
both cases I'm very satisfied with what they can do along with a little extra I always
manage to milk out of them, tinkering and tweaking. I had put off for a long, long time,
figuring out how to fix Firefox and the mailto links thing, but I finally managed to stop
goofing off long enough to come up with a solution.
Script to call pine to send mail to mailto links in Firefox. Name it whatever you want.
I named mine ffpine.sh.
#!/bin/shScript to call mutt to send mail to mailto links in Firefox. I named mine ffmutt.sh.
xterm -e pine ${1:+-url "$1"}
#!/bin/shRemember to do chmod +x scriptname or, if you want to make sure it's only executable
xterm -e mutt -F $HOME/.ffmuttrc "$1"
set signature="~/.ffsignature" # file which contains my signatureIn both instances, with mutt and pine, I made the same changes in Firefox. In the URL
Preference Name Status Type ValueOn the one box, I had to create the 'network.protocol-handler.app.mailto' line. I guess
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto user set string path_to_script
network.protocol-handler.expose.maito user set boolean false
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto default boolean true
network.protocol-handler-handler.warn-external.mailto user set boolean true
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