-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alex Evonosky wrote: > Mike Burger wrote: > >> >> I'm not sure that I understand why this is a problem. Thunderbird is a >> mail client. Firefox is a web browser...most (if not all) web browsers >> handle the download when you click on an ftp:// URL. Thunderbird's >> behavior is to call the web browser to do just that. > > > The above is true, yet the question remains, his email client is not > opening the browser, it is opening a composer window. His thunderbird > is not understanding the "ftp://";.. It is using it as a "mailto:"; > Since I assume a lot of the people on this list use TB, the question still remains .. am I one of the very few who's experiencing this? It doesn't appear to be problem with ftp:// since URLs like ftp://ftp.domain.com are handled properly. The problem comes about when there is a "@" in that URL; like ftp://user@xxxxxxxxxx My guess is TB interprets the whole thing as a mailto: due to the '@' in the address ... Perplexed, - -M -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCSC/a14B2Pwzes+4RAgGkAJ9v48jSM1/vcKdszOa7T+lTzOJ8BgCdG9ZY UCpMT54pRdCbL05fb7w/A8g= =oMDw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
