Mailto: links in a multi-user environment

[Huw Wyn Jones]

Hi folks,

I'm a new sys admin in an FE college in Wales We use Zimbra for staff email and Gmail for students. Firefox is our standard browser. The only complaint we get from staff about the current set-up is that clicking on mailto: links in webpages doesn't bring up a 'compose' page in Zimbra.

Googling hasn't come up with a solution. Zimbra Desktop, Toaster etc. don't appear to work in multi-user environments and there is no way (yet) to change the behaviour of Firefox to be Zimbra friendly. Has anyone got an answer to this issue? I'm sure we're not the only college with this problem.

TIA

Huw

[Huw Wyn Jones]

Any suggestions?

[bdial]

i think if you install the zimbra toaster it can handle mailto redirects

[Huw Wyn Jones]

I'm sure it can. But can it do it in a multi-user environment? Another posting here said that that feature will be implemented 'after version 1.0' of Toaster.

[bdial]

oh I see. Currently I don't think you can but you should be able to soon. Basically in firefox you can modify the way it handles mailto: links as explained here

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Web...tocol_handlers . The only problem is that currently if you set this up for zimbra it passes the whole mailto:address portion into the to: field. Zimbra does not currently parse this correctly to remove the mailto: portion, but apparently it will in 5.0.19

Bug 39239 – Mailto: link arguments not parsed