Changing Default Email Client 1

[KevinAr18]

I would like to setup Mozilla so it would launch a differnt email client instead of the built in one when clicking on an email link. Is there any trick to doing this? I looked through the settings and couldn't find a way.

 

[BrownOwl]

Found these instructions somewhere earlier this year (Thanks to some one called Steve). Worked for me on Windows.

Make sure Mozilla is not running. Create a plain text file named 'user.js' in your profile directory (where you'll find a file named 'prefs.js'). Add the following line to said file:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);

The next time you launch Mozilla all mailto: links will be handled by the application selected in the Email tab of the Internet pane in the System Prefs app. The same thing applies to other protocols. Just replace mailto in the example above with the desired protocol, such as ftp.

 

[KevinAr18]

Thanks, I'll have to try it after I get Windows fixed.

 

[tim9m]

as far as i know the newer version 1.2.1 the prefs file is the same as all.js located in the prefs folder. make the user.js file and then type this pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);
i got mine to work by reading brownowls post,but had to change it a little in this version of mozilla

 

[tim9m]

update: The prefs.js does exist in version 1.2.1,but for some reason i could not find it using search. I did find it by going to start and then run and typing %appdata%\mozilla\Profiles\ anyways i got it to work the other way also