JD wrote:
Rufus wrote:
Phillip Jones wrote:
Rufus wrote:
Benoit Renard wrote:
Rufus wrote:
Mark Hansen wrote:
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.
No - each operates within it's own app, but I should think that would
be what the user would desire, right? I get what Benoit is saying,
but I was thinking there's also a bit more to what he's saying...
Here's how it works. Let's take SeaMonkey 1.1.18, as its installer was
fully-featured.
If you install SeaMonkey with the "Browser only" option, which means
that you have no mailnews component, all mailto: links will open the
system's default e-mail client.
If you install SeaMonkey with the browser (required) and at least
mailnews, mailto: links will open in SeaMonkey's email client, even if
SeaMonkey isn't set as the system's default e-mail client.
The problem for people using SeaMonkey 2.0.x that want to use with
another e-mail client is that you can't install SeaMonkey as a
stand-alone browser anymore. mailnews will always be installed, hence
mailto: links will open in SeaMonkey's e-mail client. This can be
mostly
corrected, but from what I hear it's not easy to do.
Yeah...was reading that. What I've been suggesting are workarounds for
using more that one machine/e-mail client to at least make things
available to both clients and all machines without having to dig into
code and/or recompile anything. I can still understand those whom might
want a browser only install...
...only additional thing I'd suggest is setting up SM to add an
automatic cc: to self to insure any e-mail sent from SM will also go
though the user's primary server for all sends. Something I don't
presently do, but may try for a bit and see what I think.
What would be the advantage of a SM Browser only and FireFox, other
than a much better preference setup and FF.
Not to use two browsers, but for more user choice of one default mail
client other than SM Mail/News.
I might do something like SM browser only and Apple Mail.app - as you
say, SM has a better set of Pref options over Safari (or Firefox), but I
might prefer Mail.app as my e-mail client because I don't really use
usenet or newsgroups...if I didn't.
Just more flexibility and choice for the user, that's all. And maybe
saves some disk space.
Not to jump in at the hopefully end of this thread, but SeaMonkey is a
"Suite" of programs. If you just want a browser and a separate e-mail
program then maybe you should try some other programs that better suit
your needs?
...not me in particular...just making the OPs point.
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- Rufus
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