mailto: links not working
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does resetting the machine do the same thing? i usually turn it off at night.
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@mikesavad No, Windows' hibernation is not the same as a Restart.
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@mikesavad Why do you reset your computer every night? And what is that supposed to do?
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@mikesavad said in mailto: links not working:
i want my default mail client to be thunderbird
Please check if Thunderbird is really set as default.
Start Registry Editor
Open keyComputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail
What is show in right pane?
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@doctorg it shows mozilla thunderbird.
it all works like it should in waterfox. its like vivaldi is working independently from any windows default.
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@stardepp its not a reset, i just turn it off. but its the same as logging out someone.
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@mikesavad What is shown in Windows Start → Default Apps → Default Apps by Protocol → mailto
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@doctorg also thunderbird. even clicked it again just to make sure its stuck there.
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@doctorg i don't think i hibernate it, i'm pretty sure i turned it off. but i logged out and logged back in, and still doesn't work. i'm certain this is a setting some place in this program. i don't know where the config is. or why it keeps wanting me to set up a new forum account.
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I ran out of ideas.
Something on your site is wrong in Windows settings.On my Windows 10 21H1 Thunderbird 78 works to be set as default client for all programs.
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@mikesavad And TB is chosen as default app for Email?
I use TB too, and clicking mailto: links works fine. The browser should just use whatever client is set in the OS.
i have a few emails i use in my bookmarks
I don't fully understand this. What do you mean by "in my bookmarks"? Have you saved mailto links as bookmarks and these won't open properly, or have you saved URL for webmail sites?
To be sure check if you've not accidentally set the browser to handle mailto links, open the URL:
chrome://settings/handlers
It might interfere with you wanting to use TB for email and might explain the blank page issue.but it will also tell me to set up a newgroup
Do you have a screenshot showing this problem?
Is "it" Thunderbird or Vivaldi?Maybe this link is in a special format?
You need to give some example URLs, if you won't or can't show the one you're trying just make a mockup example.Here's basic test:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_mailto
You can edit the mailto address to recreate the issue, then save and share it.Another sample mailto test:
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@pathduck i have a few emails on speed dial in my bookmarks mailto: then the address. so i can send a quick mail to my brother or whoever so i don't have to look it up in contacts etc. on those it loads a blank page.
i've tried that handlers thing, the only thing it shows is:
allow sites to become handlers for protocols and the switch is set to the right which i assume is on. though i think i tried it both ways.its weird that some people have the problem and others don't and its been going on for quite a few years.
the only thing i haven't tried is to make vivaldi the default browser, but i'm not done setting that up yet. and i don't think it should matter .
when i click on a mailto: i get an unknown mail app, it looks like thunderbird, but it doesn't say that in the header. instead it loads up the account wizard and the only bubble is a newsgroup account, and no other choices. (at one point it had a drop down of different programs but of i must have hit default and now its stuck.
it wants to make a new account for this ability which i haven't done yet, i suppose i could try completing it. but it doesn't make sense to do it, and it doesn't look like its setting up a mail account. and i can't get it to switch to that.
so that's the screen shot of what i see when i click a mailto on the screen. it is a thunderbird window according to the taskbar. its treating it like it was never set up before. as far as i know i only have 1 thunderbird. if i could just reset what mailto does in that program i might be able to figure it out.
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yeah setting it up didn't help, its asking for a newsgroup server, i must have chosen the wrong thing for the association on that when it popped up. but can't get the pop up to come back.
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@MikeSavad It looks like a bug in Thunderbird if you ask me. Vivaldi is just doing what it should - sending the mail address to the OS-set client.
That Thunderbird thinks it has no accounts set up is a different matter. Do you by chance have multiple installations or profiles in Thunderbird?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager#Accessing_the_Profile_ManagerThunderbird profile manager launched with
thunderbird.exe -P
:Also - testing this, I think there might be a bug in 4.0 Stable, fixed in 4.1 Snapshot (no mention in the changelog):
When trying to create a bookmark with the address
mailto:[email protected]
, it will be changed tohttp://mailto:[email protected]/
. This might explain the blank page opening, as this syntax will mean trying to basic auth with a usermailto
and passwordsomeone
.So check your bookmarks if they happen to have been changed to have
http://
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that's weird, i figured out how to make the account, but its loading up a brand new clean install of thunderbird, and i can't figure out how to find where that one is installed. its acting like there are 2 of them. i don't really get this at all now.
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i am now losing my mind.
so i have thunderbird in my task bar, it loads fine.
click on about:profiles because i couldn't find that window you have there, it shows 2 profiles, and when i launch each one into thunderbird, it loads up 2 totally different profiles that isn't related to the one i actually use. so now i'm totally confused.
so this issue seems to be a thunderbird issue, but now i don't know why, and i'm afraid of just removing those 2 profiles.
when i'm in the thunderbird that lauches from vivaldi, i can't erase one of them. when i launch it the normal way, i can remove both of them. and neither one is the default i normally look at. its even hard to explain.
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@mikesavad Try launching TB as
thunderbird.exe -P
as outlined in the Mozilla article.In Troubleshooting Information check the Application Binary and Profile Folder values and compare.
Check your Start menu and desktop shortcuts, check properties and see where they point.
Check your installed programs if you have duplicate installations of TB.
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so far i'm up to this - i erased the 2 profiles.
1 was the one i was forced to make after clicking a mailto.
2 was something from 2016? i don't even remember making it.both are gone and i still have my default mail, but its not in a profile, and i can't move on unless it is in a profile. and now i need to figure out how to make my current settings - and turn that into a profile so i can choose that to mail with.
if i can figure that out, at least the main problem would be solved, i'll figure out the book marked version at a different time.
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@mikesavad What profile opens when you just launch TB?
Not sure what you mean by "its not in a profile"? Does that mean you can't open it in TB?
In
%AppData%\Roaming\Thunderbird
there will be a fileprofiles.ini
you can examine that contains profile information and point to the actual profile folder.As for the bookmarks issue, it's a clear bug in Vivaldi 4.0 and will (I hope) be fixed once 4.1 is out. You might need to go through all of the special bookmarks and edit them back to proper mailto URLs after that though.
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ok i solved it, and i'll mention it here because i know if i had the problem someone else is looking for an answer.
when i made up thunderbird for the first time i never made a profile. i just copied my stuff to a profile directory in the thunderbird directory, and it worked, it just didn't have a profile.
apparently you need a profile in order for a mailto to work, the ones that are on a page anyway, the mailto command in the bookmark bar still makes a blank page.
so to solve it, i made a new profile - removing the old broken ones. did whatever it asked me to do, put the email info in etc., closed the program, then copied everything from the old profile into the new one, copying over old files. then opened the program and made that the default... though thinking about it now i should have tried to force that in thunderbird to start with, only thinking of that now.
anyway, it no longer asks for a profile, it just opens the write window like its supposed to do.
but i still have the mystery of why the blank window, when i open it from the bookmark bar. (using the speed bar or whatever they call in this program).