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Strange Response To Strange Email Link

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Alan37 отвечено
Alan37
Alan37

Hello,

Thunderbird is my default email program and if I receive an email containing an email link of the form Fred.Bloggs@example.com I can click the link and Thunderbird opens a new message to Fred Bloggs. Today I received an email with the following link: email:customerservices@zen.co.uk. When I clicked it a little dialogue popped up asking me which program I wanted to use to open the link. I browsed to Thunderbird and selected it, but when I clicked OK nothing happened. Why isn't Thunderbird automatically handling all email traffic? What settings do I have to make sure that links of this form will be handled properly in future? Why wouldn't the system be told to use Thunderbird?

Alan.

Hello, Thunderbird is my default email program and if I receive an email containing an email link of the form Fred.Bloggs@example.com I can click the link and Thunderbird opens a new message to Fred Bloggs. Today I received an email with the following link: email:customerservices@zen.co.uk. When I clicked it a little dialogue popped up asking me which program I wanted to use to open the link. I browsed to Thunderbird and selected it, but when I clicked OK nothing happened. Why isn't Thunderbird automatically handling all email traffic? What settings do I have to make sure that links of this form will be handled properly in future? Why wouldn't the system be told to use Thunderbird? Alan.
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Lin
Lin
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I believe it's because the link is invalid - the form "email:xxx@yyyy.zzz" is incorrect syntax. It should be "mailto:xxx@yyyy.zzz"

Alan37
Alan37 Задавший вопрос

Lin,

Thanks, it's a relief to know we're just looking at somebody else's error. I've notified the chap who sent me the link so it shouldn't happen again,

Alan.

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