On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:01:00 +0000, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:51:28 +0000, walt wrote: [...] >> Now, I can't figure out out to get pan to use alpine in the first >> place, but it sounds like you already know. If pan wants to send the >> string "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to alpine, then you >> would use 'alpine -url %s' as the emailer preference. > > CORRECTION to my last : the minute I sent off the post, a > terminal popped up with alpine -- and the whole message in the To: field > again. So either gnome preferencesare not the answer, or I have mine > set wrong.
Okay, I just figured it out myself. In your gnome preferences for email: xterm -e alpine -url %s (Do *not* check Run in Terminal because gnome seems to have screwed this up somehow!) To answer your other question, a URL is not by definition a website address although it certainly is what most people mean by URL. Another example would be ftp://ftp.gnome.org. The mailto: protocol should IMO be written as mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] but historically it isn't. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
