Mail links in NS 4.78 shouldn't open in Navigator

hi all,

in our current configuration here we have Netscape 4.78 Mail as default mail-app and Phoenix as default browser. We want NS Mail to open links in phoenix. Instead they open in Navigator. I tried user_pref( "network.protocol-handler.external.http ", true); in user.js, but that didn't work.
Any suggestions?

thanks,

sven

 

What you did should work..

But you must not have netscape navigator nor netscape mail opened/loaded during adding that line.

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

otherwise it won't be saved. So close down all netscape programs and try again.

This should work then, however, I did the same thing, only with IE instead of phoenix, and some annoying bugs appeared..

For instance, if you receive a mailmessage containing 1 or more pics, coming from a website (img src=http://www. etc) then for each pic a new instance of the external browser will be opened...

There's no solution for that problem as far as I know, and this problem makes working with the external browser almost impossible if you receive a lot of mail like newsbriefings containing external pics.

ps I did it with netscape 7.01 not with navigator, but I assume the same thing will happen

 

The reason it worked for you (well, sort of is that you had NS 7.01. I tried it with Mozilla-Mail 1.3 and that worked, too.
I think the line user_pref( "network.protocol-handler.external.http ", true) is only processed in NS 6 and above.

regarding your image-popup problem: we have a http-proxy here. when we disabled that proxy NS-Mail couldn't establish any connection to load images; ergo no popups and no privacy issues (e.g. checking out if user opened that mail) any more. most html-mails are annoying spam anyway...I admit, a rather crude workaround.

 

Hi sven,

I am 99.9% sure that this cannot be done. It is not possible using Mozilla 1.4, or Netscape 7.02 I have asked the Phoenix experts, however, in order to be 100% certain.

Do you use the Phoenix Mail Client at all? Have you considered adding the 4.7x Mail account to the Phoenix Mail & Newsgroups. This is very convenient, and removes the necessity of having to open Communicator in order to access the Messenger Mail. Your links will open in Phoenix...

Ramona

 

Pheonix mail client?

hi ramona,

thank you for your reply. But I've never heard of a phoenix mail client. Phoenix is a browsing-only solution. If you mean the Minotaur/Thunderbird client: we don't plan to use it here yet because of its current alpha-status.

Regarding my initial problem, there's a tool named "nsproto" which hooks in netscape as a protocol handler (via OLE). Whenever a user clicks on a http link in messenger nsproto will be called, which in turn can open any other software to view the link. Maybe we should give it a try.

regards,

sven

 

Hi sven,

Yes, I meant Minotaur/now T-bird. I haven't installed either Firebird or T-Bird yet, but reading some positive comments on the respective Forums.

Let us know if you are successful with Nsproto!

Ramona