Redirecting mailto: links to webmail?

This problem can be solved quite easily by spending like.. 5 minutes to configure Outlook Express to use your favorite web based email provider. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but I reckon the wizard that pops up should be able to walk you through it. If my memory serves me correctly, all you have to do is to remember or figure out your web based emailserver's adress.

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Original post by Afr0m@n This problem can be solved quite easily by spending like.. 5 minutes to configure Outlook Express to use your favorite web based email provider. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but I reckon the wizard that pops up should be able to walk you through it. If my memory serves me correctly, all you have to do is to remember or figure out your web based emailserver's adress.

Outlook will still want to send it itself. It will just ask you for the address to the pop server so it can send its own emails through that.

I want to have absolutely nothing to do with outlook, I don't want it to know my address, I don't want it to know any of my contacts, and I most certainly do not want it to compose my messages for me.

Start->Control Panel->Internet Options

Click the programs tab, and in the dropdown box beside E-Mail select your client (note that this will only show clients/services that have registered some method of launching themselves and providing the parameters - for example I have Outlook, Outlook Express, Hotmail and Pegasus Mail listed).

I'm sure you can find docs on how to manually register whatever webmail client you use, though actually getting it to work properly will depend on if your webmail provider has anyway to specify the mailto parameters (i.e. is there a parameter in the URL where you can place details to be automatically filled out)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail
Here is a dump of Pegasus Mail, a third party email client that can be used with MailTo

The main thing you want to edit is the \Protocols\mailto\shell\open\command entry

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail]@="Pegasus Mail"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Protocols][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Protocols\mailto]@="URL:MailTo Protocol""EditFlags"=hex:02,00,00,00"URL Protocol"=""[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Protocols\mailto\DefaultIcon]@="\"C:\\Program Files\\PegasusMail\\WSENDTO.EXE\",0"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Protocols\mailto\shell][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Protocols\mailto\shell\open][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Protocols\mailto\shell\open\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files\\PegasusMail\\WSENDTO.EXE\" %1"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Shell][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Shell\open][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Pegasus Mail\Shell\open\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files\\PegasusMail\\WINPM-32.EXE\""

BTW, if you're using GMail the GMail notifier (that runs in the system tray) can do this for you.