Thunderbird (Os/2) command line useage

[Thomas Garson]

I am trying to get Thunderbird to load with its composition window
open by clicking on an email link in Fiurefox.

I have everything working, except I can't get Thunderbird to accept
the email URL. I get the composer with no addressee.

"Thunderbirtd--help" gives several command line options, including
this one:
Thunderbird -compose <URL>

I take this to mean "Thunderbird -compose ***@goodoleboy.net"
should start the composition window with an email to joebob. It
doesn't.

What am I doing wrong?

[s***@nospam.bty.co.uk]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:50:09 UTC, "Thomas Garson"

Post by Thomas Garson
I am trying to get Thunderbird to load with its composition window
open by clicking on an email link in Fiurefox.
I have everything working, except I can't get Thunderbird to accept
the email URL. I get the composer with no addressee.
"Thunderbirtd--help" gives several command line options, including
Thunderbird -compose <URL>
should start the composition window with an email to joebob. It
doesn't.
What am I doing wrong?

thunderbird -compose
to=<address>,subject=<subject>,cc=<address>,bcc=<address>,body=<text>

as desired.

[Kenn]

Post by Thomas Garson
I am trying to get Thunderbird to load with its composition window
open by clicking on an email link in Fiurefox.
I have everything working, except I can't get Thunderbird to accept
the email URL. I get the composer with no addressee.
"Thunderbirtd--help" gives several command line options, including
Thunderbird -compose <URL>
should start the composition window with an email to joebob. It
doesn't.
What am I doing wrong?

Hi Tom,

Well, you have to inform Firefox about your desired e-mail application,
not the other way. Here are some instructions that I copied some time
ago, but should still be relevant.
============
Mozilla / Firefox - External Mail Applications

Here are the entries for the file, prefs.js or user.js, to be entered to
allow Mozilla or Firefox to access an external e-mail client, as found
on Steve Wendt's site,
<http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html>.

External mail apps
Future versions should include support for using an externally
configured default application for email. Until then, you can specify
things manually via these preferences:
user_pref("applications.mailto", "X:\\path\\to\\mail_prog.cmd");
user_pref("applications.mailto.parameters", "\"%url%\"");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);

============
HTH.

[Peter Weilbacher]

Post by Thomas Garson
Thunderbird -compose <URL>
should start the composition window with an email to joebob. It
doesn't.
What am I doing wrong?

Don't know but a real URL is of the form mailto:***@goodoleboy.net
and that works here. But your method without mailto: at least opens a
compose window and puts the cursor into the empty To: field...