kmail/kontact and FF3

[Derek Broughton]

Juan Kawada wrote:

> lots of people seem to be having this problem (there is another thread
> about this in the mailing list too) but that I've seen there is no answer
> yet.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:25 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 08:55 +0200, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> >> In firefox 3 I clicked on a mailto: link and was told to choose
>> >> between kmail and yahoo mail. However, clicking in Kmail absolutely
>> >> nothing happens. Anyone knows why and how to make FF3 call
>> >> Kmail/Kontact when clicking on mailto: links?
>> >>
>> >> btw on Kubuntu 8.04 w updates,
>> >>
>> >> Sinclair
>> >
>> > Sinclair, have you gone to System/Preferences/Preferred Applications?
>> > If not, you can set several things there including default email,
>> > browser,
>> etc.
>> Yes I have and FF is set as browser and Kmail as mail application. This
>> comes from "inside" Firefox as it suggest Yahoo mail as alternative
>> (that I NEVER use...)

Sorry to come so late to this - I don't use FF for anything except bad
websites that don't behave properly with Konqueror, but my wife does, and
now I find myself up against the same problem.  There is a good howto at:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/firefox-3.0-email-links-no-thunderbird-650845/page2.html#post3195097

for making FF3 work with Thunderbird, and simply replacing all occurrences
of "thunderbird" with "kmail" makes it possible to invoke kmail from inside
FF3, but I haven't actually figured out how to fill in the Subject yet.
-- 
derek