How to Control Mailto Selection in Firefox

[harooki2]

What file do I use to make sure Zimbra is used when I click on a mailto link from a website being displayed by Firefox? The zdesktop.exe file doesn't work for me.

[odeleon]

There's a few options for this.

There's a Firefox add-on available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ddon/mailfrom/ ...though it's currently listed as Experimental and said to work only for AOL Mail, Google Mail and Yahoo Mail Classic.

Or you could go to about:config in FF and search for gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHos t , se it to true (change it back after you're done, for security reasons) and type into your FF URL bar javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandle r("mailto","https://yourzimbraserver/zimbra/?view=compose&to=%s","Zimbra"); ...the next time you click on a mailto URL it should open a window to select which application to use, you select Zimbra and set it to be the default.

In the background this is setting a few lines in the mimeTypes.rdf for the user's profile.

My tests were done on a FF 3.6 on linux, but a customer did it in their windows desktops and it worked for them (afaik). Haven't tried it in FF 4.0.

[odeleon]

I'm sorry. I didn't realize this was posted in the ZD forum, that information applies for ZCS, I don't know if it'll work in ZD.

[SCG]

Originally Posted by harooki2

What file do I use to make sure Zimbra is used when I click on a mailto link from a website being displayed by Firefox? The zdesktop.exe file doesn't work for me.

My company is having the same problem. We use Zimbra desktop. We all use the mail to function and Firefox gives you the option of selecting other for your email but there is no Zimbra file available to attach. The only other choices are gmail and yahoo. We want to track all sent messages in our Zimbra Desktop.
I hope someone out there can contribute.

[SCG]

My company is having the same problem. We use Zimbra desktop. We all use the mail to function and Firefox gives you the option of selecting other for your email but there is no Zimbra file available to attach. The only other choices are gmail and yahoo. We want to track all sent messages in our Zimbra Desktop.
I hope someone out there can contribute.

[batfastad]

We don't use Zimbra Desktop (because it's an absolute beast of a program) but do use Zimbra in Firefox Prism WebApps.
That way it's completely isolated from other Firefox windows and has its own entries in the taskbar etc.

I've been longing to find a way to associate the mailto: handler with a Zimbra Prism webapp... as stated in my sig
But as yet I've been unable to solve this.

The ideal situation would be for there to be some sort of lite client application that comes with Zimbra to register/preserve the mailto handler... basically like the old toaster.

However we're getting problems now since Prism is no longer being developed and is not supported by FF4.

Someone, somewhere really needs to come up with a new method for creating/creating standalone WebApps.
Be really great if all the settings for the WebApp could be provisioned from an XML file over HTTP. So if you need to change the Zimbra host/port (or the annoying webapp.ini/prefs.js settings in Prism,) it could all be done remotely.
Chrome/Iron have an option in the menus to create a WebApp but all HTTP(S) links then open in a new Chrome/Iron window rather than in your default browser.