[Pan-users] Re: old trouble : can't email

[walt]

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:address@hidden"; 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://address@hidden but historically it isn't.