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[Warren Samples]

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?

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


Warren