Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Squirrelmail and Linux

[Craig A. <cr...@ar...>]

I was able to make Firefox 27.0.1 OpenSUSE 12.3 x64 use Squirrelmail for 
mailto: addresses by carefully following these instructions:
   http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2399957
   using http_*s*_://<your server>/<squirrelmail base 
dir>/src/mailto.php?emailaddress=_*%s*_      (as opposed to %1 in other 
instructions, and I configured to use https instead of http at my site)

Similarly for Chromium (I haven't tried this one yet):
   https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154031

Making either browser use Squirrelmail for mailto: composition addresses 
is a challenging/difficult problem.  Firefox has defaults for GMail and 
Yahoo preconfigured.  Chromium doesn't appear to have a default mailto: 
handler.  I couldn't find any straightforward way for a "normal" user 
(non-programmer) to configure anything as a mailto handler in either 
browser which isn't already built-in.  As the fellow in the first 
article said, "Gee, it only took 1.5 years to figure out".  Both 
browsers have some addons/extensions applications available which can be 
found by searching for "mailto" in their respective application areas.

While debugging, I pasted the URL
http://<your server>/<squirrelmail base 
dir>/src/mailto.php?emailaddress=*myEmail@my**D**omain.com*
into my browser of choice to ensure I had the correct URL format.  The 
rest was getting my browser configured to use the URL I want, and in 
Firefox, replace my...@my... with %s.

I hope these two articles help you get to where you want to go:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2399957
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154031

Craig

On 03/07/2014 08:51 AM, Chris Hodgson wrote:
> We are running a number of Linux Thin Client machines (GNOME).  We would
> like to have squirrelmail as the default mailto handler.
>
> I found documentation on the squirrelmail page with regards to this for
> Windows and Mac but not Linux.  I know in Linux there is a spot under
> Preferred Applications to set a Mail Reader.  And below that there is a
> place to put in a command.
>
> I tried using the information from here
> https://squirrelmail.org/docs/stable-code/squirrelmail/_src---mailto.php.html
> But it is still not working.  If someone could put me in the right
> direction that would be great.
>
> As well I know you can change the default handler in Chrome but I do not
> believe squirrelmail is an option.
>