Excellent, thanks! Mirko
-- Mirko Kranenburg e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:38:58 -0500 C. A. Niemiec wrote: >>How can one switch Netscape 7.02, both in OS X and in OS 9? >> >>I am sure it must have been discussed on this list, > >You may have been thinking of the following. > >>but I do not know where to look for archives. > >Don't feel bad, neither does anyone else! ;) > >Chris >-- > >"Mozilla and Powermail" thread: > >from Thomas Mueller-Hotop: >----- > for OS 9.1: > > Go to "Applications -> Mozilla Folder -> defaults -> pref " > and open the doc "all.js" with BBEdit and fill in > > <pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);> > > without "<>" on the respective place. > > After then Mozilla should open the Mail-Client you selected > in the "Internet" Control Panel. > > On my system it works fine with Entourage (I'm very new with > PowerMail and new on the list, too). > > I got this idea from the German "MacWelt" 02/03, page 134. >----- > >from Sam: >----- > As far as mailto URLs from within Mozilla... thanks > for the tip. The workaround I found was to create a > user.js file in the same folder where all.js is > located. > > The user.js file contains the following line: > > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", > true); >----- > >from Tom Gally: >----- > For the now-moot issue of how to click on a "mailto" link in > Mozilla and get it to open a new e-mail message addressed to > that address in PM, Thomas Mueller-Hotop wrote: > >> >for OS 9.1: >> > >> >Go to "Applications -> Mozilla Folder -> defaults -> pref " >> >and open the doc "all.js" with BBEdit and fill in >> > >> ><pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);> >> > >> >without "<>" on the respective place. >> > >> >After then Mozilla should open the Mail-Client you selected >> >in the "Internet" Control Panel. > > I tried the same thing in OS 10.2.3, and it worked. Many thanks > for the hint. > > On my system, the "all.js" file is in a different location > (Home > Library > Mozilla > Profiles > [username] > [a folder > with a seemingly random name]). > > I added the following line to the file: > > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true); > > because all the other lines began "user_pref", not "pref". I put > this line in its proper alphabetical location in the file, though > I don't know if that was necessary or not. > >-----(note he made the following correction to the above...) > >> >On my system, the "all.js" file ... > > The name of the file that I modified was "prefs.js", not "all.js". > Sorry for the confusion. >----- > > > > >