On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:27:41PM -0400, Guy Rouillier wrote:
Todd Slater wrote:
So at work I have an IMAP (Groupwise) account. I can open, read, and send with Mozilla, Thunderbird and Kmail. When I try to add the account with Sylpheed I get a segfault. I remember problems with Sylpheed and IMAP but I left the Sylpheed list so I'll go back and investigate.
Thing is, I don't really want to use Mozilla or Kmail, and Thunderbird won't work yet as it can't send URL's to a browser.
Todd, I don't understand what you are saying here. I've been using Thunderbird from the Minotaur days, currently running a nightly build from 5/31/2003 on Windows and on Linux. After reading your message, I clicked the "Write" button and typed myself a message, containing only a URL. All my mail is set to go out in text format, and I didn't do anything to the link I typed to force it to be a hyperlink. When that message arrived, the URL was automatically hyperlinked. I clicked it and it opened up my default browser (a featured selling point of Thunderbird, that it brings up your default browser instead of always bringing up Mozilla.
Heck, here is the link I typed by hand, see if it hyperlinks for you:
http://www.2cpu.com
Note that this link is not **showing** as a hyperlink as I'm typing, but it is parsed as a hyperlink when it is received.
Guy, maybe they removed this functionality? I wanted to check what version I have (I thought it was a recent nightly) before answering: I'm using one from 6/18/2003. There is no place to specify a browser to use in the options.
I thought maybe I didn't have the BROWSER variable set, so I did an
export BROWSER=/usr/local/bin/dillo
and restarted Thunderbird, still no joy.
Does your build have an option to specify browser, or does it just take it from the BROWSER environment variable?
Excuse me for a minute while I wipe this egg off my face... there, that's better, I can see the screen again. By searching the bugs list for Mozilla Thunderbird, I found a reference to the todo list here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/todolist.html which says this:
"We need a linux guru to implement nsIExternalProtocolService::loadUrl for linux. Without this, we don't load http urls (and other non mail urls) in the default browser like we should. I'm not sure what the OS integration hooks are for Linux to implement this routine. It problable depends on the desktop environment being used? (Bryner might have something for this for gnome)"
And no, it does *not* work for me, even though my BROWSER variable is set. It works in Windows, and everything *else* about Thunderbird in Linux works like the Windows version, so I made an erroneous assumption. My humble apologies, Todd.
Todd
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