No support for Google Apps

It can be configured to support it, if you manually edit the ini-file in ~/.config/desktop-webmail/ to look like:

https://mail.google.com/a/your.domain.com/mail?etc.etc.

i will add support for a .config/desktop-webmail/webmailers.ini and maybe /etc/desktop-webmail/webmailers.ini ...

Martijn, is the '/a' alsways the same in https://mail.google.com/a/your.domain.com/mail?etc.etc.desktop-webmail ... e.g. is your.domain.com the only variable?

This bug was fixed in the package desktop-webmail - 002-0ubuntu1

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desktop-webmail (002-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Release 002
    + fix LP: #562840 - No service is launched when clicking menu icon
    + fix LP: #561923 - No support for Google Apps

  * drop patches applied upstream
    - delete debian/patches/consistent-naming.patch
  * ship /etc/desktop-webmail config directory that can be used to
    add system wide webmailers.ini etc.
 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:36:27 +0200

you can now add $HOME/.config/desktop-webmail/webmailers.ini ... and /etc/desktop-webmail/webmailers.ini to add more configs.

OK, somehow this is not working for me.

This is what my desktop-webmail.ini looks like (domain-name changed)

[Config]
remember=true
default-provider=Gmail
default-url=https://mail.google.com/a/raXXXXXXing.de/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s
default-inbox=http://mail.raXXXXXXing.de

when I click on a mailto-link it always drags me to https://mail.google.com/mail/ and wants me to type in my google mail credentials. But I want google-apps apparently.

So what am I doing wrong?

help!!? please! I would LOVE to get this working.

It is all very well marking this "Fix released", but there is no documentation in the package on how to configure it for Google Apps, and no hint in the user interface that it is even possible. In other words, for the majority of users, it is still unfixed.

To help Stefan Schindler, and any other users who may be puzzled (and note, this does NOT constitute a fix, just a workaround until there's a proper fix), the solution is as follows: as suggested above, you need to add a ~/.config/desktop-webmail/webmailers.ini file. The following works for me:

[Gmail (Google Apps)]
ID=13
URL=https://mail.google.com/a/sc3d.org/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s
INBOX=https://mail.sc3d.org/
ICON=https://mail.google.com/favicon.ico

Note that there's an obvious problem here: you have to make up an ID that is not used. This is a bug in the design: you can't expect users and sysadmins to keep IDs unique when they cannot guess what IDs may be used by future updates to /usr/share/desktop-webmail/webmailers.ini, and they shouldn't have to read those files in the first place.

I was hoping the developer would take a look at this:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

It would be awesome, if there was a default option to make this application log into gmail using my "Google Apps for Business" account.

Basically, the url I use to log into my gmail looks like this:
https://mail.google.com/a/MyDomainName.com

My goal is to be able to click on mailto links, in any broswer (chromium, firefox, etc), and when I do have it launch the compose message in my "Google Apps for Business" gmail account.

I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I guess I'll have to do something custom as described above for now, but this would an awesome addition if you guys could add it.