Adam Reporter
	Description • 22 years ago

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

ShellExecute(0,0,"mailto:test@server.com",0,0,SW_SHOWNORMAL); does not open
mozilla mail. It opens <shiver> Outlook.
Start->Run: mailto:test@server.com does the same thing.
This should just be a registry entry on installatition. (I think)

	Matthias Versen [:Matti]
	Comment 1 • 22 years ago

what is your setting in :
Edit\preferences\Mail&Newsgroups\[x] Use Mozilla as default Mail application

(you must run Mozilla as administrator )

	Adam Reporter
	Comment 2 • 22 years ago

That setting is on (checked).

	Ian Neal
	Comment 3 • 22 years ago

Confirming on BuildID 2002080508 on WinXP.

Simple MAPI?

	Jean-Francois Ducarroz
	Comment 4 • 22 years ago

over to simple MAPI

	Brant Gurganus
	Comment 5 • 22 years ago

Personal opinion: this is a bug, not an enhancement since that option is present
in Prefs and it adds to IE's e-mail program list.

Here is an e-mail that led me to do a search for ShellExecute:
From John Schracher of Bugtoaster.com:

Hello Brant-

My guess is that Netscape did not properly set all aspects of the
pluggable "MailTo" protocol in the Windows registry and it's still
registered to Outlook Express. Netscape has a history of not properly
using the Windows registry.


Here's the nitty-gritty details:

To launch the email client we use the following code snippet

--- Begin Snippet ---

// let Windows (ShellExecute API) do its magic
LPCTSTR pszUrl = "mailto:clientsupport@bugtoaster.com";
::ShellExecute( NULL, "open", pszUrl, NULL, NULL, SW_NORMAL ));

--- End Snippet ---

The ShellExecute() API looks at the pluggable "MailTo" protocol in the
Windows registry under:

"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command"

...and launches the appropriate command string.

The registry points to Outlook Express and it should point to Mozilla.

I would think this would be a rather simple fix and many people would benefit so
nominating as a blocker.

	Asa Dotzler [:asa]
	Comment 6 • 22 years ago

not gonna happen this late in the cycle. maybe someone will pick this up for 1.4.

	Rainer Bielefeld
	Comment 7 • 21 years ago

This bug might be related to bug 207974?

Rainer

	Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)
	Comment 8 • 16 years ago

(In reply to comment #7)
> This bug might be related to bug 207974?

It looks like it might even be a duplicate...