Sending mails by right clicking on a file: how to replace Evolution?

[Thilo Six]

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Stegozor wrote the following on 23.08.2006 21:47:
> Wade Smart wrote:
>> 08232006 1256 GMT-6
>>
>> type about: config in firefox address bar.
>> Scroll down to
>> network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
>>
>> the value needs to be Thunderbird.
> 
> Are you sure? I didn't have these values in Firefox and Thunderbird, so 
> I added them manually, the value of the field is now a string: 
> "Thunderbird" (without the quotation marks).
> 
> The problem is that nothing changed. I also relaunched the window 
> manager, but that didn't help either. By right clicking on a file and 
> then on send to... I still have Evolution as the sole suggestion, 
> nothing about Thunderbird.
> 

Menu > system > Settings > preferred App. (translated from german)

change the mail value to TB.

and:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-thunderbird

and choose gnome as preferred desktop.

HTH Thilo
- --
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine

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