How do I make mailto: links open gmail in Ubuntu?
Solution 1:
As of Ubuntu 10.04, you can simply install the desktop-webmail
package. The first time you click a mailto:
link, it will ask you to pick your webmail provider. After that, all mailto:
links will open in the webmail provider of your choice.
Solution 2:
In my gnome-default-applications-properties, I set the following custom mail reader:
gnome-open https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s
(In gnome-default-applications-properties, also make sure that the default browser is set to Chrome/Chromium.)
Note that this only affects external applications (e.g. gnome-terminal) that invoke a mail agent. mailto: links within Chromium itself work as of r25100. (Chromium Bug 20696)
Solution 3:
I use the daily builds too and when I click on a mailto link it doesn't do anything. I don't think that they have implemented mailto handling yet.
Solution 4:
Since you are using Chrome, you can install an extension which redirects all mailto links to Gmail.