changing to another default email client

[myanimator]

Hello...
I realize that with in the IE options panel you can choose your e-mail client. By default it is Outlook Express or Hotmail. Where I work we have our own web based e-mail service. Does anyone know how I can add that option to the control panel and make it the default?

thanx
:o)

[RWSchlatter]

just make a regular bookmark in your browser (Favourites for IE)

J may be wrong with this statement, the Internet Settings works for locally installed (EXE file) mailer software (using MAPI, SMTP etc) and not web based stuff. Hotmail may have a special setup, but that is Microsofts baby.

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Regards - Richard

[myanimator]

Yes I have already made the bookmark and tried to make it as easy as possible. However when you click on a mail address in a webpage it wants to pop up the default email client. I've disabled Outlook so it just gives them an error but if it could go to the webmail we have set up for them it would be much nicer.

thanx for trying

[RWSchlatter]

Let's try the following:

J have prepared by copying an existing definition, a fresh definition of an e-mail client for the Internet Properties. Cut-and-Paste into Notepad and save (e.g. YahooClient.reg), then right-click and Import/Merge with Regedit.

This new definition will point to Yahoo. You can adjust it, so that the name is that of your provider. It contains two keys ending in \COMMAND. Modify to hold the URL of your own sign-on page.

The hex-values are cause of expanded string data type. Please insert into registry first, then modify the key data.

Then choose this client from the Programs tab of the Internet Options.

~~~~~~~~~~~~cut-and-paste~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo]
@="Yahoo Mail"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto]
@="URL:MailTo Protocol"
"EditFlags"=hex:02,00,00,00
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00 ,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\
00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,4f,00,75,00,74,00,6c,00,6f,00 ,6f,00,6b,00,20,00,45,00,\
78,00,70,00,72,00,65,00,73,00,73,00,5c,00,6d,00,73 ,00,69,00,6d,00,6e,00,2e,\
00,65,00,78,00,65,00,2c,00,2d,00,32,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto\shell]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto\shell\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto\shell\open\command]
@=hex(2):22,00,25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00 ,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,\
00,65,00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,49,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00 ,72,00,6e,00,65,00,74,00,\
20,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72 ,00,5c,00,49,00,65,00,78,\
00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00 ,65,00,22,00,20,00,68,00,\
74,00,74,00,70,00,3a,00,2f,00,2f,00,6d,00,61,00,69 ,00,6c,00,2e,00,79,00,61,\
00,68,00,6f,00,6f,00,2e,00,63,00,6f,00,6d,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\she ll]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\she ll\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\she ll\open\command]
@=hex(2):22,00,25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00 ,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,\
00,65,00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,49,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00 ,72,00,6e,00,65,00,74,00,\
20,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72 ,00,5c,00,49,00,65,00,78,\
00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00 ,65,00,22,00,20,00,68,00,\
74,00,74,00,70,00,3a,00,2f,00,2f,00,6d,00,61,00,69 ,00,6c,00,2e,00,79,00,61,\
00,68,00,6f,00,6f,00,2e,00,63,00,6f,00,6d,00,00,00

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Regards - Richard

[myanimator]

Richard -

That works! Thank you very much for your help :)

[dboyscout]

I can't seem to get it to work. I changed it so that it says REGEDIT 4 at the top, and I seemed to have followed all the other directions, but when I try to use it, it says "Windows cannot find name@domain.com This program is needed for opening type 'URL:MailTo Protocol'. and a file browse dialog box.

Any clues?

Thanks!

[RWSchlatter]

the cut-and-paste stuff was for a Win2K system, and the hex stuff contained a definition for a data type of REG_EXPAND_SZ. J don't know if the import was ok if you modified the header. We never spoke about versions, but mine is a IE5.5.

try once more with (and don't forget - this is a "hack" ):
~~~~~~~~~~~~cut-and-paste~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo]
@="Yahoo Mail"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto]
@="URL:MailTo Protocol"
"EditFlags"=hex:02,00,00,00
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe",-2

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto\shell]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto\shell\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\Pro tocols\mailto\shell\open\command]
@="C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iexplore.exe" http://mail.yahoo.com

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\she ll]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\she ll\open]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Yahoo\she ll\open\command]
@="C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iexplore.exe" http://mail.yahoo.com

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Regards - Richard

[dboyscout]

Thanks, silly me. The problem was that I was not putting the iexplore.exe program path before the URL. Anyway, thans for the help. It still does not insert the To: field with the recipient as well as any possibe Subject: field that might exist. Is that supposed to be the case, or am I asking too much now? ;) Thanks.

[RWSchlatter]

if you find out for your own webmail provider, if he accepts a parameter with the "To:" recipient, you can modify the URL to contain the extra information.

As for Yahoo used as sample, J have not found a solution.

The "Subject:" is not part of what can be done by this tweak. This ones purpose is to kick off a mail program when an email address is clicked on a web page.

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Regards - Richard<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by RWSchlatter on 06/07/01 16:05.</FONT></P>