Email File?

[hausi]

When I choose Actions -> Email File in Konqueror, Kmail is called. I have installed and configured Thunderbird as my mail agent. How can I change the mailapp from Kmail to Thunderbird in Konqueror?

[nixternal]

Re: Email File?

Kmenu > System Settings > KDE Components > Default Applications > Email Client

set it to thunderbird!!!
Enjoy!!!

[hausi]

Re: Email File?

i have done that first thing after installing thunderbird, but it does not help :-(

[aysiu]

Re: Email File?

The context menu actions aren't defined by what's the default or not the default. You'll need to edit the action itself to make it launch Thunderbird:

cd /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/
sudo cp email.desktop email.desktop_backup
kdesu kwrite email.desktop

[svein]

Re: Email File?

For me it worked to open Kmenu > System Settings > KDE Components > Default Applications > Email Client and changing to mozilla-thunderbird. (Yes, mozilla-thunderbird, not just thunderbird).

Now email-links in Konqueror opens up Thunderbird. However, I am not able to open up emails from Firefox - when I click an email-link in Firefox nothing happens - any clues?

[aysiu]

Re: Email File?

hausi isn't talking about email links in Konqueror. This is the right-click context menu--when you click on a file and select Actions > Email File, that's different from clicking on a mailto: link.

[svein]

Re: Email File?

Sorry about me misunderstanding the problem

Btw, I found out that to have Firefox open mailto-links in Thunderbird I just had to add the following line to my firefox user.js file:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird");

[hausi]

Re: Email File?

The context menu actions aren't defined by what's the default or not the default. You'll need to edit the action itself to make it launch Thunderbird:

cd /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/
sudo cp email.desktop email.desktop_backup
kdesu kwrite email.desktop

thanks aysiu, this nearly works: I get the tbird icon on the context menu, tbird starts up but there is no new email with the file already attached. I was huntig around for the appropriate commandline options for tbird but came up dry :-(

[hausi]

Re: Email File?

after some more digging and trial and error this seems to work

file:
usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/email.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Actions=Email
Encoding=UTF-8
ServiceTypes=allfiles

[Desktop Action Email]
Name=Email File
Exec=mozilla-thunderbird -compose attachment='file:///%s'
Icon=thunderbird