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Idea #4608: Add a options to use GMAIL or other web mail program with gnome

Written by nick83ola the 14 Mar 08 at 11:56. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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It's useful if you can set gmail or yahoo mail or other web mail program as default mail client.
I don't use from a long time Epiphany er/or outlook similar mail program
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Written by nick83ola the 14 Mar 08 at 11:56.
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phq wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 12:59
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Gmail supports pop and imap and gives instructions on how to setup most clients.
I don't think it's the client job to favor a provider. You start by adding gmail and next thing you know, you'll find dozens of provider presets when half of these providers are out of business.

kunick wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 13:48
This is possible with a little command line magic. I know, I know. Might not appeal to everyone but here is the low down to set gmail as the default action for mailto.

Create a script in a suitable location with the following:

#!/bin/sh
firefox -remote "openurl(https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=`echo $1 | sed 's/mailto://'`,new-tab)"

put everything from firefox on in the same line.
save the script as open_mailto.sh and make it executable
chmod 744 open_mailto.sh

Then, from Gnome navigate to System->Preferences->Preferred Applcation.
Change the Mail Reader to Custom and enter the full path including the file name to open_mailto.sh.
e.g.
/home/username/scripts/open_mailto.sh

And that is it as they say. Now every time you follow a link with a mailto url, gmail will open in firefox.


phq wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 14:21
Looks like I didn't get it.
I think firefox-3 is supposed to be able to support mailto protocol through webmail but I can't get it to work with 3.0b3 from the backports repo.

phq wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 14:28
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web-based_protocol_handlers

edcrypt wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 17:03
sudo aptitude install prism prism-google-mail

mattme wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 00:58
My university has options to set webmails as email handler on its computers. I don't know how it is done.

CydeSwype wrote on the 12 Jun 08 at 22:58
http://matthew.ruschmann.net/blog/Linux/gnome-gmail-1.1.html

here's a script that does it, but the point here i think is to support web mail clients. gmail is my primary mail client and more software is moving online. the "webtop" is becoming more feasible. however, gnome needs to be able to send any email address clicks from any application to the default mail client. that's the point here. the script above does most of that but doesn't have the ability to check if you already have a tab open with gmail in it. THAT would be nifty...

Lightbreeze wrote on the 29 Sep 08 at 04:07
Yeah, Prism. But it should work with mailto:


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