GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 215987
Gnome integration: Automatic handling of mailto: urls
Last modified: 2005-04-19 09:38:03 UTC
It would be very nice to have Evolution set itself automatically to handle mailto: urls. It's not entirely trivial to do by hand, since evolution's command line is undocumented. (evolution --help isn't helpful.)
evolution mailto:<blah> where <blah> is a mailto url. this can be set as the gnome url handler, galeon has a config option for it also... evolution mailto:%t I think.
I think I reopened this without managing to add a comment... The bug report isn't that we can't handle mailto:'s, but that on the initial setup dialog, we don't ask the user "Should Evolution be your default mail composer?". In order to have Evolution handle mailto:'s, the user has to muck with the control center.
I agree with Peter on this. It would be great if when Evolution started up it checked if there was a mailto: URL handler in Gnome, if not it should offer to put it in there. In addition there should be a place in the preferences of Evolution to do this. Yes I know you could argue it is not Evolutions job to fiddle with Gnome's settings, however I would argue that only evolution knows how to call itself (i.e. knows the exact command to put in the mailto: line). Having just spent an hour to figure it out myself - it would be beyond most people to fix this. Damian
let it be noted that I think applications that do this are EVIL.
i'd consider this as a part/subset of/solved by <http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Mailer.html#127526>?
to me this is now a duplicate of bug 127526, please reopen if you are not content. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127526 ***