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[Richmond]

On 02/07/2011 11:13 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 23:02 +0200, Richmond wrote:
>> On 02/07/2011 10:58 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 22:36 +0200, Richmond wrote:
>>>> I wonder why:
>>>>
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>>      revMail "xyz at gmail.com", ,"Important Information","The sun is shining"
>>>> end mouseUp
>>>>
>>>> doesn't seem to send an email to xyz at gmail.com (on Linux, at least)?
>>>>
>>>> I have tried this for 2 e-mail addresses with no joy.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Hi Richmond,
>>>
>>> Here it opens a new message in Evolution, to the desired address and
>>> with the subject, but it doesn't pass the message body. Livecode 4.5.3,
>>> Linux Mint.
>> Can you set the default e-mail client on Mint?
>>
>> I use Thunderbird (because I have it set up on both my Mac and my Linux
>> machines), but
>> Ubuntu (11.04 beta) doesn't seem to give me a way to define my default
>> e-mail client.
>>> Warren
>>>
>
> Yes. The Mint menu has a "Preferred Applications" item which allows
> this. It's also available in the general "Preferences" configuration
> tool, under "Personal". Does it appear under the "System" menu in
> Ubuntu?

Err . . . silly me; I see that it SHOULD be in Preferences; only I had 
deselected it in the Menu settings
as am cheesed-off having to scroll through yard and yards of 'funny' 
prefs that I never use.

I, also, rather like to choose with what I am going to open something at 
the time I am opening it . . .  :)

> http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/How-To-Set-Preferred-Applications-In-Ubuntu
>
>
> Warren
>
>
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