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I wanted to start mutt in terminal , when I click on some 'mailto' tag in a webpage , is that possible ? Currently Firefox starts , which I really don't favor , it's slow loading , and unnecessary.

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Which desktop environment are you running? You need to check it's MIME type handler's settings on how to set a specific handler for these kind of things.

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OpenBox , i just don't know how to get the mimetype , it's not a file , i can't just run 'mimetype /path/to/file' to identify it – user73361 Aug 16 '11 at 12:55
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