Mail Link not working...

OK, I thought I solved my problem in an earlier post about eudora and netscape. Well I did in a way...

Now the new problem is when I click on a mailto link in a web page I get "Can Not Send Mail. No Mail Program Is Set Up to Send Mail "


Now, URL Mail Association is set to:

rundll32.exe url.dll,MailToProtocolHandler %1

Which is the same in my regestory mailto command

How can I fix this? (Prefer to do so with out un-installing anything)

LMK ASAP please!!!

 

Argent,

This should be the entry for the Registered File Type: URL:MailToProtocol
Screen Shot

On your Eudora Thread, I didn't ask if you had tried disabling, then enabling the Preference for making Netscape the Default Mail Program. This is sometimes necessary with the 7.x Releases, as the first enabling of a Preference isn't always retained, and the disabling/enabling process must be repeated in order to make the setting stick. You don't really need the /m included in the Registry Key either, but I don't think it does any harm.

Ramona

 

How would this look with Win98se???

Your picture looks NOTHING like mine!

Correction...figured it out.

Did what you said and now I get non stop Netscape Windows opening...

 

Argent,

In your salted Folder (*.slt) delete the localstore.rdf file.

This should eliminate the problem.

Ramona

 

This may seem strange, but I do NOT have a .slt folder in my registory or is it located somewhere else???

 

Argent,

Your salted folder is located here:
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\profilename\xxxxxxxx.slt

Ramona

 

Well, tried that and still no mailto link problem...

Last knight I formated the c drive and re-installed everything and still have the probelm.

This is how it looked after I was finished...

I am running Win98se

My association shows: rundll32.exe url.dll,MailToProtocolHandler %l

My registory shows: REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto]
@= "URL:MailTo Protocol "
"EditFlags "=hex:02,00,00,00
"URL Protocol "=" "

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\DefaultIcon]
@= "C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\url.dll,2 "

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell]
@=" "

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open]
"EditFlags "=hex:01,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command]
@= "rundll32.exe url.dll,MailToProtocolHandler %l %1 "

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\QuickView]
@= "* "

I KNOW the problem is here!

 

First have you reset Netscape to be the default mail application in Edit Preferences Mail and Newsgroups, as Ramona suggested?

If so, then see if this applies
http://mozilla.gunnars.net/mozfaq_use.html#externalmail

How do I make Mozilla not use its own email client when clicking on an email link?
Add the following line to the "prefs.js" file:
user_pref( "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto ", true);
Make sure that Mozilla is not running (not even in the background when "quick launch" is activated), or your changes might be overwritten when you close Mozilla. Mozilla should then use the system default mail client (e.g. Eudora, Outlook,...) when you click on an email link in a website.

Do you have user_pref( "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto ", true); in your prefs.js file? That would make Netscape look for a (nonexistant, in your case) external e-mail handler.

I would try the following:

Close Netscape, then back up your .SLT folder's prefs.js file as a normal precaution.

Open the user.js, if you have one, or prefs.js in Notepad and add the following line (or change "true" to false in the existing line):

user_pref( "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto ", false);

That should tell Netscape not to look for an external mail program.

 

I am going to try it, BUT I WANT Netscape to be the default. I will try it with a couple of refersals (not ture, false)

Yes, I did that...

 

Argent,

Was the line already in the prefs.js file?

 

IT WORKED!!!!!!

I changed

user_pref( "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto ", true);

to

user_pref( "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto ", false);


YEA!!!!

OH ****!!!! I stayed up till 5:30 this morning because I formated my hard drive!!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

I would never have guessed ut would be something as simple as that!!!


THANK YOU!!!!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox


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(Did I say thank you???)

 

Hey. that's great! Soooo happy to hear it worked

Alice