ProductiveLinux Podcast Episode 10 - Gmail as Default Mail Client (OGG Format)
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by nathan
We’re in the double digits! This week’s podcast is about setting Gmail as your default mail client at both the desktop environment and browser levels. We focus on using Firefox to access Gmail, but these ideas could be extended to other browser! If you’re a Gmail user, this could be really useful.
- Set Gmail as Default Mail Client in Ubuntu - This is a nice guide
Better Gmail 2 - Sweet Firefox extension- Checkgmail - One of those apps you can’t live without.
- 2 SSH Tips to Make Your Life Easier - Ken’s ssh tips.
- Undelete on an Ext3 Filesystem? You Betcha! - Bruce’s heads up on that howto for undelete in Linux.
Gmail Script:
#!/bin/shfirefox https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=`echo $1 | sed 's/mailto://'`
How can I do this with Yahoo as my Default Mail Client ?
The Helpful Linux Tidbits blog has a post on doing this with a script (as above with Gmail):
http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/yahoo-as-default-email-client/#comment-830
It uses the epiphany browser, but you can probably just replace “epiphany -new -tab” in the script with “firefox” and it should work fine.
If don’t want to mess with a script and you’re a Firefox user, check out the WebmailCompose Firefox extension:
http://soakedandsoaped.com/articles/read/how-to-install-webmailcompose-in-firefox-2-0
Just found a good Ubuntu forums thread on this issue as well:
http://tinyurl.com/3xgk7y