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Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives?

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I've tried removing and re-creating the symlinks for mail, Mail and 
mailx in /etc/alternatives an pointing them to icedove, and still when I 
  click on any mailto link, I get a terminal with Mutt.
I don't even have mutt configured on this machine, my mail provider 
seems to not like mutt
I've googled until my eyes bled, etc., etc., but I have yet to find a 
solution to this.
I just want icedove to be the default mua, and to work with chromium 
when I click on a mailto:// link.

Any assistance appreciated.
Thanks,
Tony

On 09/16/2016 03:10 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On 09/16/2016 10:52 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
>> (Is there a particular reason you replied to me privately, rather than
>> to the mailing list?)
>>
>>> I should probably mention that I'm using chromium as my browser;
>>> getting firefox or iceweasel to use icedove is like falling off a log
>>> it's so easy. I had it working on the Jessie on an hdd that just died
>>> on me (thankfully not until I'd downloaded and made an install disk
>>> to install on the other hdd, which I'm using now.) But in my old age,
>>> I can't remember for the life of me how I did it. I don't believe it
>>> was with update-alternatives. I think I edited some config file
>>> somewhere, but for the life of me, I can't recall where.
>>
>> A quick bit of Googling finds a discussion of a similar subject from a
>> few years back:
>>
>> http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/3063-solved-chromium-mailto-link-doesnt-open-on-thunderbird-xdg-email/
>>
>>
> I haven't the slightest idea where to find
> settings panel >default applications >email
> As the forum thread doesn't say what settings panel where.
> And I can't find anything in chrome://settings that corresponds to mail
> or default applications.
> nor is there anything in my systemmenu under settings for default
> applications.
> Perhaps the forum user was referring to something in the default wm
> (mate or something?) which I don't use.
> I'm using openbox with the fbpanel.
>
>
>> I'm not sure this is the _only_ way to do it, or necessarily the best,
>> but someone did report it worked for them.
>>
>
>


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update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 16:20 +0200
  Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-16 16:40 +0200
    Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 17:00 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-16 17:10 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-16 17:50 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 00:30 +0200
        Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-17 01:00 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2016-09-17 01:30 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 04:40 +0200
    Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 21:20 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 23:10 +0200
        Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-16 23:50 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 00:50 +0200
        Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-17 01:00 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-17 01:10 +0200

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