brave_tbird

A smart-ish email client handler script for Brave.

This script runs Thunderbird when a mailto link is clicked in Brave.

Under certain conditions, webmail may be used instead of Thunderbird.

Installation / upgrading

1. Get the latest the release, uncompress the file and switch to the newly created directory.
2. Copy xdg-email-hook.sh to a directory in your $PATH. For example, ~/bin:

cp xdg-email-hook.sh ~/bin

Customization

XDG_EMAIL_HOOK_WEBMAIL_URL

A user defined variable influences this script as follows:

XDG_EMAIL_HOOK_WEBMAIL_URL	If Thunderbird is not running
Not defined	Start Thunderbird
Defined or set to ""	Use gmail in Brave
Set to a Webmail URL	Use the URL in Brave

Webmail URL

Specify a webmail URL fragment that needs the rest of the URL to be provided.

For example ensure that it ends with something like ...&url= To the right of the = will be provided.

Set up

Tweak brave handler

On Brave, ensure that there are no handlers for email defined or that mail.google.com is blocked:

brave://settings/handlers

xdg-mime

Confirm that Thunderbird is the default email client.

The expected output from the command below is thunderbird.desktop:

xdg-mime query default 'x-scheme-handler/mailto'

KDE

On KDE, if the above output is not returned:

1. System Settings > Applications > Default Applications
2. Ensure that the Email client is set to Thunderbird.