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I've been using this little trick for email links for a while now, and I thought I would share it with my fellow voxers. If you use linux and gmail, then keep reading...
I use gnome, for kde users, you would need to look around for 'Preferred Applications' or something to that effect. Maybe a kde user could enlighten us?
- Select 'System' from the system task bar, 'Preferences', and 'Preferred Applications'
- On the internet tab (should be the default tab), select 'Custom' in the Mail Reader dropdown.
- In the command box, paste this:
perl -MURI::Escape -e '$to = shift;$to =~ s/^mailto://i;exec("firefox", "https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&cmid=22&to=".URI::Escape::uri_escape($to) );' '%s'
- Click 'close'
Now, try it out, click a link like this: Email Link
Firefox should open a new tab with a gmail compose window ready to send a message with the person's email filled in for you.
