Comment 57 for bug 44335

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:53 PM, omni <email address hidden> wrote:
> Ok I tried clicking on the tray icon to bring up my mail reader and it
> tried to load Evolution, even though my Preferred Applications is set to
> use Thunderbird.

What's in the gconf key /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command ?
Get it with something like "gconftool-2 --get
/apps/mail-notification/commands/mail-read/command" or by using
gconf-editor.
(You might want to try to install gconf-editor to easily get/set its value).

> I installed 5.4 again now that I have libssl-dev, in hopes that there
> would be an option to select which mail reader to use. Double-
> disappointment: not only is v5.4 still lacking in that feature, but the
> SSL/TLS became disabled again.

SSL/TLS is disabled even tho libssl-dev is installed?! What's in the
configure/build logs?

> I've reverted to 4.1 (again using the dpkg build routine after ensuring
> --disable-ssl had been removed from debian/rules) [side-note: i notice
> there's no debian/rules file in 5.4...] and now that I'm back to 4.1 the
> TLS/SSL support is back.

No debian packaging files for 5.4 as haven't ported them yet.
You might have noticed that there's been significant changes upstream
since 4.x .
Changes include license changes and a switch to a not-autotools
configure/build tool.

[...]
> How can I set mail-notification to launch the correct mail reader?

Try editing the relevant gconf key as mentionned above.

-Pascal
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