Few thunderbird questions

[Micah]

Eric Schuele wrote:
> Steel City Phantom wrote:
>> ok, bsd 6, kde 3.5, thunderbird 1.5, firefox 1.5
>>
>> few things that are slightly annoying in thunderbird that if someone 
>> knows how to fix, i would be very happy.
>>
>> 1) when i click on a url link in thunderbird, nothing happens.  how to 
>> i have it open firefox and go to that url
> 
> I think the following in ~/.thunderbird/<your_profile_dir>/user.js 
> (which may not exist by default):
> 
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox");
> 
> Mind the wrap... its three lines.
> 
>> 2) when mail arrives, it does a system beep.  is there any way to map 
>> that to a KDE event so i can put some kind of meaningful sound to it?
>>
> 
> Can't help here.


Edit->Preference->General->Play Sound

Note: some people have problems with it.  It didn't work for me for the 
longest time, then suddenly started working after a port upgrade.

HTH,
Micah