[Users] can't click on Firefox e-mail links and open the Claws-Mail compose window -- UPDATED INFO

[Dustin Miller]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:41:50 -0500
Gil Weber <gilweber at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... Is the answer in the different Claws-Mail versions?
> 
DM: That's where I would look first.
> 
> ... I am using Mint 20.2 with Claws-Mail 4.0.0 (flatpak). When I click
> on an e-mail link in Firefox 97.0.1 the main Claws-Mail screen opens,
> not the compose window. 
> 
> ... setting up Firefox email links in the about:config screen.
> 
> network.protocol-handler.app.mailto	claws-mail  ("string")
> 
DM: I would look into this, as you possibly need a different string
here. The terminal output of 'info claws-mail' may help you here,
perhaps Claws' online documentation, and you may need to check out some
generic flatpak info or some that's specific to the Claws flatpak (that
would be with the flatpak maintainer though, rather than here). If you
still have a non-flatpak version of Claws installed on your system as
well, you may want to check which one is actually getting opened when
you click on the link; that might also give you a data point for
figuring out the string you need.

DM: I think some systems also have settings to handle this on a
system-wide basis, although I realize it's possible you may only want
this for firefox. Hope that gives you some ideas on how to move forward
in trying to resolve this. ---Dustin