I made one change to the script. With the original, my Thunderbird
(2.0.0.23) wasn't using the recipient address:
   thunderbird -compose "to='$1'"


Cheers,
Mazanatti

On Dec 18 2009, 6:46 am, Bas Grolleman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > Man, Do sucks. The guys who work on it must be real assholes.
>
> Gnome-Do uses the system default mail app, the only proper way to do it in
> my opinion. If you need to setup your preferred mail client in more than one
> location, someone is doing it wrong. In Ubuntu there is only one spot where
> you set mail, System -> Preferences -> Default apps. (Don't bring up CLI
> here, not the point)
>
> So, now I'm done feeding the troll, let's make this a usefull post.I wanted
> to start thunderbird for company mail and gmail for personal. Fixed it using
> a small shellscript.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "$1" | egrep '(yourcompany.com)'
> if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
> thunderbird -compose $1
> else
> firefox "https://mail.google.com/?view=cm&tf=0&to=`echo $1 | sed 's/mailto:
> //'`"
> fi
>
> Simply put that as default mail app with %s behind it, and when I select
> someone with "yourcompany.com" in the email then I get thunderbird. All
> other options return my gmail.
>
> Geeky? Yes.
> But still makes me very happy. :)

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