Set Gmail as default Mail Client in ubuntu
This post was written by admin on June 8, 2009
Posted Under: General
Posted Under: General
There’s a simple way to configure the default browser and mail client in ubuntu.Firefox is the default web browser,so you shouldn’t need to use this screen,but if you want to set the default mail client,here’s the way to do it .
Just navigate to System–>Preferences–>Preferred Applications
Under Mail Reader,select Custom in pull-down menu,and type following in Command area,changing “wraith” to your username
/home/wraith/open_mailto.sh %s
Then,download this ,and save to /home/username
run following command in terminal yo make it executable:
chmod u+x ~/open_mailto.sh
Done
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Reader Comments
Thanks for this tip! Evolution was such a pain!
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I did exactly this and gmail comes up with an error, says it is temporarily unavailable when it isnt!
can you help?
Andy
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Yargh! This no longer works in Ubuntu 11.04 — there is no longer a choice for “Custom” in the Mail Reader dropdown.
Any ideas, interwebs denizens?
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