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entwisi · 26-10-2007, 21:13

simply, nope, at the end of the day you are asking a program running effectively 'inside' another to know what email settings etc that you have. Under Windows it is using teh default email client association to open Outlook.

Wine has no understanding of application associations so it doesn't know that you want it to open Mozilla. at best I guess it tries to open Outlook under linux which is clearly not going to happen.

one thing I try to instill in new linux users is to try to stop thinking "I use XXXX program under Windows" and to try to think "I want to do YYYYY, what will do it under Linux" at teh end of teh day you want software to do something for you it doesn't matter what its called.

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entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Hah, I see your Vista Aero and raise you Compiz!!! simply, nope, at the end of the day you are asking a program running effectively 'inside' another to know what email settings etc that you have. Under Windows it is using teh default email client association to open Outlook. Wine has no understanding of application associations so it doesn't know that you want it to open Mozilla. at best I guess it tries to open Outlook under linux which is clearly not going to happen. one thing I try to instill in new linux users is to try to stop thinking "I use XXXX program under Windows" and to try to think "I want to do YYYYY, what will do it under Linux" at teh end of teh day you want software to do something for you it doesn't matter what its called. __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?