SeaMonkey Mail 1.0.1 help with default setting

Hi Folks

Here's my conundrum...

There are 2 separate windows profiles on the computer. I have recently moved to SeaMonkey 1.0.1 from Mozilla Suite 1.7.12

Everything is fine with my profile... when I have SeaMonkey running, I have it setup as the default browser and mail program.... the appropriate boxes are checked as well.

However, in the second windows profile, I cannot get SeaMonkey to retain it's default status for mail. Everytime I restart it and go to mail or the addressbook, the popup requesting if I want to make it default appears. I have have answered yes as well as checking the box not to ask again. I have manually gone into preferences and checked the mail box under Mail & Newsgroups.

I have tried uninstalling / reinstalling SeaMonkey with a brand new SeaMonkey profile without success.

Is there a preference setting I can place in the prefs or user.js to force this behavior? I figured there was but could not locate one off hand.

Thanks
trephin

 

I want to make sure that I understand this. do you have two separate logins in winXP (I assume)? And, how were things before, with Mozilla? ok in both whatever? Or, are you using two separate profiles in the same login? Or what?
Typically, the profile(s) is (are) in one location, and you cannot have more than one default at the time. I don't have a separate login, so I don't know how it would behave, but I would expect that you have two separate App.Data folders. You can easily signon with the other profile, if you have separate mail.
Whatever you said can be easily misinterpreted. I would like to know what you had before, with Mozilla.
Also, the uninstalling/reinstalling with another profile does not make sense, unless you create a new profile. Uninstalling/reinstalling does nothing to the profiles (s).

 

There are 2 separate Windows XP login/profiles/users so when the computer boots, you have to choose a login

Each Windows XP login/user, there were two mozilla suite profiles (yes, separate Application Data/Mozilla/....salt folders.

In both cases, Mozilla was the default browser and mail application.

I have changed to SeaMonkey 1.0.1. In my WinXP login/user, my Mozilla/SeaMonkey profile is working fine.

In the other WinXP login/user account, SeaMonkey mail/addressbook keeps asking if I want to make it the default program when it gets restarted/opened. SeaMonkey is listed as the default program for mail under internet options for windows.

I tried the reinstalling of SeaMonkey with a new profile (I removed the application data/mozilla folder) in case there was a profile corruption that was persisting.

Thanks

 

trephin,

I can't help you with XP, but in SeaMonkey, open:
Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups

Enable: Make SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups the Default Application for:
Mail - Newsgroups

Next:
Edit | Preferences | Navigator
Under "Default Browser" press the tab: "Set Default Browser "

Do you still get the prompt?

 

I don't have experience with booting up with tow different usernames. But, I would think that you have in both, a Mozilla|profiles|default|xxxx.slt folder, which had been, previously been used by Mozilla. I don't think that deleting the Application Data folder was a good idea. You, probably, are creating anew some of the folders, but the point is if you had two different .slt folders in the two logins. Do you have different e-mail addresses in the other login? Two logins are for two different people. You don't need a separate login, if you want to use it yourself. I don't know if you would have any better lucj, copying the .slt folder from one login to the other, and then when you open SM, it should open with no complaints. But, if you have deleted the old folders, were would you find the other account (if any) mail?
I, just, don't understand what you want to accomplish.

 

I'm sorry if I was not being clear....

All I want to accomplish is stopping SM mail from asking if I want to make it the default mail program (I want it the default mail program).

No matter what I select, SM Mail always asks this when starting for the first time after closing SM.

This only happens with SM under one windows account. It works fine under another windows account.

Everything else works fine. It just is very annoying to have this popup every time.

I thought there might be a user_pref that could stop the popup from asking but could not locate one.

 

trephin,

Look at Reply #4, where I listed the Preferences for default browser and default mail. Do you have those enabled?

 

Hi Ramona

Yes, I read the reply.

The problem is that the settings are not retained. If the preferences are opened again, the options are reverted back to not default for browser and mail... so when you close and restart SM, you have the popup asking if you want to make it default again.

Odd.... my personal account and profile work fine.

Any other windows user accounts show this problem (i have created 2 other test computer admin accounts and have the same issue with the default request)

 

I think that I had understood what you said. That is way I was asking if you had different e-mail accounts in the logins. Again, since I use only one login, the Administrator one, I have no experience with any secondary logins, nor care to try that.
Out of curiosity why do you want to have separate logins?

 

The computer is used as the family computer. So, we have different windows logins (although we are all set as administrators) and different emails.

The different windows logins also allows for different preferences such as desktop layout, wallpaper, etc.

Although it doesn't solve the original problem per se because SeaMonkey is ehaving as it is supposed to, I finally found a combination for the problem profile

I have answered NO to "Set the mail as default" and checked the "Do not ask again" box.

If I answered YES, then it would keep asking if I wanted to set it as default no matter if I had set it to ask again or not.

So, the options always shows the Mail option unchecked in the Mail&Newsgroups > General Settings but it seems to not make a difference and the "Set the mail as default" window no longer pops up - which was what was desired.

 

Interesting solution, but my curiosity asks ...
was the "problem" repeating prompt to "Set the mail as default" a singular problem?
I was wondering if each XP login user has the ability to change and keep their unique settings when using SM [example view(s) and sort(s)].

 

With each Windows Login/User Account, you have your own everything... so yes, options etc are different

The problem here was not that the views and sorts were not being retained but rather just that SM kept asking about whether you want to make it the default program.

This is happening across any windows user account except one.