[Novalug] Firefox + E-mail question

[Zhendong Yu]

*** From Alan McConnell <alan at patriot.net> [15:15 12/14/2006]: ***

> Since I'm dial-up, I use lynx for 95% of my browsing.  But occasionally
> Firefox is necessary.  And sometimes I wish to send out E-mail -- perhaps
> to reply to something on a page -- within Firefox.  And I click on
> Reply;  and Firefox kindly puts up a screen volunteering to set up
> Evolution for me.  <g>
> 
> Don't want no steenken Evolution!  I've got a fine MUA, mutt, set up just
> the way I like it, and an OK MTA, Postfix, set up pretty good.  So how do
> I delve into the innards of Firefox to tell it to use mutt and/or Postfix?
> 
> Any help adept Firefoxians can provide will be much appreciated.
> 
> Alan

Alan,

What about this:

http://internet.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/12/1644203&tid=144

Basically you want to start mutt in a console (xterm, konsole, etc).

/usr/bin/xterm -title mutt -bg black -fg white -e mutt mailto:%A?subject=%S&cc=%C&body=%B

HTH,
-zd