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You mean to say that mailto: links don't open in Thunderbird automatically for you?

rmcbme wrote:Yes, that is right

There should be a file in your .mozilla subdirectory called "user.js" ... If it's not there we will have to create it, e.g. Add this line: Hope this works?

Proactive mentioning of some things:

If ever you decide you would like to switch your distribution you can take your .mozilla directory to the new installation and it should work, e.g. you wouldn't lose your bookmars etc. However, there are a few things worth mentioning:

Chances are that on whatever other distribution you might ever want to try out, Mozilla's main binary is not called "mozilla-thunderbird" but just "thunderbird".

So you'd have to rename the directory Thunderbird stores its settings in: Alternatively you can make everybody happy by creating a symbolic link, which would make sure that the directory can be found under both names: You'd then have to adjust user.js too ... e.g. change the line from:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird");

to:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/usr/bin/thunderbird");

I had to do this when I copied my settings over from Mint to a SUSE installation ... As I said, just to mention this.