Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 127631
Setting Mozilla Mail as default mail app doesn't work properly
Last modified: 2013-04-02 00:19:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040620 Description of problem: I have Mozilla Mail selected as the default mail application. However, clicking on the "Email" item from the menu lauches the browser part of Mozilla and not the mail & newsgroups part. Lauchmail from a terminal does the same thing (obviously, as the menu item calls it). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.gnome-default-applications-properties 2.set the mail app to Mozilla Mail 3.run "email" from the menu (or run launchmail from a terminal) Actual Results: The Mozilla Browser opens. Expected Results: The Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups should have opened. Additional info:
Adding to the above, clicking on a mailto: link outside Mozilla opens Mozilla Mail instead of a new mail message.
Apparently there is no good way to open mozilla to compose mail. -compose works but it doesnt respect the url argument described in the manual. On rawhide we have now thunderbird which works fine in this respect but I'm not sure when it will be obsolete mozilla mail.
Marking this as WONTFIX. Mozilla mail is going to be obsoleted by thunderbird and the problem cannot be fixed in the control center because mozilla mail doesnt provide a proper command line option.