Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111402
Preferred Applications doesn't call balsa properly
Last modified: 2013-04-02 00:18:43 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Epiphany/1.0.4 Description of problem: I decided to start using Balsa because Evolution is overkill for my home e-mail needs. I went to Preferences->Preferred Applications->Mail Reader and selected the top radio button, then picked Balsa from that menu. When I did so, the grayed Custom Mail Reader command box changed to balsa --compose=%s. However, when I tried using mailto:: links, balsa was not called. I read the man page for balsa and found that it recommended using balsa -m "%s" as the command for having it handle mailto's. I went back to the Mail Reader preferences, set the radio button for Custom Mail Reader, and entered balsa -m "%s" in the command box. After that, balsa was properly called when I clicked on mailto links. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
Fix confirmed. triage->easyfix
Still present in FC2.
gnome-control-center/capplets/default-applications/gnome-default-applications-properties-structs.c: - { N_("Balsa"), ..... "balsa --compose=%s", ...... }, + { N_("Balsa"), ..... "balsa -m %s", ...... },
Thanks. Bug has been filed upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143975
Fixed in GNOME CVS for both 2.6.x and HEAD branches.