At 7:15 AM +0800 14/3/06, Paul wrote:
Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
At 7:32 PM +0800 13/3/06, Paul wrote:
Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
I am using Mozilla as my main browser because it accesses my
sites for internet banking and does most other things reasonably
well.
Eudora is my email application and I can set it so that a URL in
an email, if clicked, will open in Mozilla.
In Mozilla, if I click on an email address Mozilla naturally goes
to its own mail application. Is there a work-around so that
clicking on an email address in Mozilla will open Eudora?
I believe this is normally done by setting Eudora as the default
app in Mail.app's preferences.
I hope that gets around the fact that your browser has it's 'own' mail app.
Good luck
Paul
In Mozilla's preference panel for Mail & Newsgroups there appears
to be no way of setting Eudora as the default.
Were you referring to some other Mail? The only other Mail I have
is Apple's Mail and it is different in layout from the one that
pops up in Mozilla. The mystery deepens.
Merv
Hi Merv
Yes I did mean Apple's Mail.app.
I use Thunderbirbird so under Mail>Preferences>General>Default Email
Reader I have Thunderbird selected.
In the 'old' days there was a preference pane in System prefs but
now one needs to set the default mail app from within Mail.app's
prefs, same for browsers where you do it from Safari's prefs.
I hope I'm on the right track as I have never used Eudora.
Perhaps you could tell us why you use it as I am quietly looking for
a new mailer...
HTH
Good luck
Paul
At1:34 PM +0800 14/3/06, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
Hi Paul
1 The version of Mail that I have with OS X 10.2.8 is v 1.2.5.
Its preference panels do not contain a General option. Screen shots
of Mail with 10.4 do have such. Mail seems to come with the System
so unless I upgrade I won't have all the preferences that you have.
2 I wonder whether we are talking at cross-purposes. In Eudora
I can set up Mozilla so that when I click on an URL in Eudora the
site opens in Mozilla. However, what I want is the situation that
when I am in Mozilla and an email address is given in the web page,
a click on the email address or 'contact us' will take me to Eudora.
I can do this with Internet Explorer and I think a protocol helper
in the preferences of IE facitated this connection. I'm moving away
from IE hence all the interest in Mozilla.
3 I have always preferred the freedom and speed of a
stand-alone email application - not something lumbered with a
browser, and so I use Eudora. It has a range of features (most of
which I don't use so I get four or five emails at each download that
offer me a better sex life) which an enthusiast would wish to use.
It comes in three form, lite, sponsored and the fully purchased. I
use the sponsored and because my needs are simple and it does all
that I require.
Didn't want to give up on this one.
Went back to Eudora's Questions and Problems and after chasing
through various Q & A and Groups was redirected back to a Mozilla
group and found two options: 1. uninstall Mozilla and reinstall as
browser only. 2. modify a preference. I examined both options but
the first seemed unavailable so I pursued the second. Quit out of
Mozilla. Not being a developer I had to fiddle around to find the
correct path. It goes like this: User - Name - Library - Mozilla -
Profiles - default - no9y7sdy.slt - prefs.js
Next, open prefs.js with Text Edit. I guess it wasn't necessary but
I scrolled down until I found some network code and then inserted the
instruction given from the help group, namely.
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);
Saved and quit from Text Edit.
I opened Mozilla, went to a page with an email link and clicked. Was
asked did I wish to continue with this change. OK. Bingo.
Having had success I decided to call it quits and Shut down. Machine
froze!! I forced shut down and restarted. Opened Mozilla and
clicked on the email link. This time the dialogue box asked whether
it should remember what it was doing. OK.
I think I should have restarted after quitting from Text Edit and
then perhaps the freeze might not have happened.
Anyway, I am a happy chappy!
Merv
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