Scott Randby <sran...@gmail.com> 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:sran...@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
