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by Stuart Langridge.
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For my sins, I installed Evolution in the past. I don’t use it; I use Thunderbird. But clicking a mailto link in Firefox starts up Evo. Big no-no. So, I had a poke around. In Computer | Desktop Preferences | Preferred Applications you can choose Mail Reader to configure your default mail reader. TB doesn’t seem to show up in the dropdown, so I thought I’d bang it into Custom Mail Reader. So, what do you put in? I’d have thought mozilla-thunderbird %s.
Nope.
That doesn’t work. Moreover, if you try that from the command-line:
That works! Yay! So, let’s try that in the Custom Mail Reader box in Preferred Applications.
Nope. Dammit. It pops up a mail window, no problem…with “%s” in the To box. Dammit.
Any suggestions?
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