On 1/31/2010 12:35 PM, Rufus wrote: > Benoit Renard wrote: >> Ray_Net wrote: >>> I don't understand why people complains about installing SM as a >>> browser-only. If they don't want the mail or the news parts in SM, >>> they can use their preferred ones. >> >> The problem with 2.0.x is that you can't opt out of an e-mail client, >> and this meant that mailto: links will open up in SeaMonkey's e-mail >> client instead of their separate e-mail client. >> >> It takes non-trivial fiddling with 'hidden' preferences to correct this. > > It's actually pretty easy on a Mac, and I'd think it's be just as easy > on a PC...on a Mac, I can set my default Mail handler to Mail.app, and > then set SM to open the browser only on startup...which is what I do. > > So SM Mail/News doesn't open unless I specifically open it; and I use > the SM Mail/News client within the suite to serve newsgroups. > > The other thing I do is to set SM to "leave messages on server" - which > I also do with all other machines in my arsenal except my Intel iMac, > which is my primary machine. That way, I can roam with my laptop, or > use any mail client I wish and still have access to messages when I get > home and store them in a central location before deleting them. > > More of a strategy to employ rather than any need to change SM, IMO. > Any platform ought to be able to use this strategy I'd think. >
So if you have a mailto link viewed in the Seamonkey browser, you can click on it and it opens your non-Seamonkey e-mail client? If not, then re-read what Benoit wrote. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
