<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body dir="ltr" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Mario Vukelic wrote: Hi Mario: You're right again as usual. Thanks again! <blockquote cite="mid:1225783559.7142.3.camel@chronic" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 23:36 -0500, Mark wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I would like to know how to set Thunderbird as my default email program instead of evolution. Thank you. I am using a dell inspiron 1525 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> On your top panel: menu System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications. Switch "Mail Reader" to Custom Applications. Then enter as the command: /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird %s At least this should work in principle. According to this forum thread, however, there might be some issues with this: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=18175">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=18175</a> I don't user TB, maybe someone with TB experience can help? </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>