openning Mozilla compose window

[dakota81]

I've also posted this in the WinXP listing as I thought it was something else with WinXP & the registry (which it is), and I'm going to try here too and see if I get this solved:


I'm trying to make Mozilla Mail my default e-mailing program and so that if I'm in Internet Explorer and click on a mailto: link, a Mozilla compose window will pop up. I was able to figure some of it out, I needed to change the hkey_classes_root\mailto\shell\open\command\(default) value to the command-line entry to bring up Mozilla's compose window, but it's still not quite perfect. Does anyone know what the value should be for Mozilla mail? Here's been my attempts:

..(path)..\mozilla.exe -mail "%1"

^^ this is what I think it should be, but it just brings up the mail client, but doesn't open a compose window for a new e-mail.


..(path)..\mozilla.exe "%1"

^^ opens up the browser, puts the mailto: link in the address bar then opens up a window for a new e-mail like I want. However, a blank Mozilla page is open which I then have to close.


Or is this just maybe a bug in Mozilla? I've got 1.5 & 1.6b to test here and they both react the same.

 

[smah]

Just a SWAG, but have you tried:

"..(path)..\mozilla.exe" -mail "%1"

 

[smah]

Here's an interesting link

http://members.toast.net/4pf/Protocol.html

I looked quickly and it seems to imply no quotation marks.

 

[dakota81]

I'm starting to think it's just a bug in Mozilla that I'll have to wait out; the quotation marks are there in case there are any spaces in the mailto: link, such as "mailto:someone@somewhere.com?subject=Hello Friend" where without them Mozilla would think "Friend" is a separate parameter.