Re: Getting external mail program to work under Solaris

Mårten Svantesson <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
> 
> > I've got mutt working as my external mail program for Firefox PR1 on
> > my Linux system at home but can't get it to work on my Solaris Sparc
> > system at work.
> >
> > I've created a script run-mutt which invokes mutt in a terminal window
> > (and works fine when called from a command shell).  I've changed the
> > following in prefs.js (using about:config):-
> >
> > network.protocol-handler.app.mailto             <full path to run-mutt>
> > network.protocol-handler.external.mailto        true
> >
> > ... and when I click on mailto: links absolutely nothing happens.  The
> > run-mutt script doesn't get invoked (I've put some simple output to a
> > file in there to check).
> >
> > So have I missed anything or is there something broken about Firefox
> > PR1 on Solaris?
> 
> I've seen it mentioned that if you run Gnome the mail program that is
> set as the default for Gnome will be used. 
> 
... and?  Solaris and Gnome are not really much related are they?

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Chris Green