How Do I Make Web Mail My Default Email, Part 2 - alemanmility

In a continuation of last Thursday's post and skicrazer's forum question, I offer another approach to integration Web-supported email with Windows.

Windows has had a handy Default Mail Node setting for a very long time. Information technology not only allows you to chatter a mailto link in your browser and pass away directly to your email program of choice, only IT also lets you to ring armou a document directly from Word, an archive from WinZip, and any file from Windows Internet Explorer.

Clicking the E-mail button in Windows Explorer

Unless you'ray exploitation a Web-based mail military service like Gmail or Hotmail. Past, it seems, you'Ra out of luck. You lav't move into a URL as your nonpayment mail client.

In last Thursday's post, I offered some solutions that will help oneself when you click a mailto link on a Web Thomas Nelson Page. Now Here's a solution that will work with everything else (and work with those mailto golf links, as well).

The solution is a smallish program called Affixa. It's rid, but you can get more features for an yearly subscription of only ₤2 ($3.11 as I write this).

Affixa installs into Windows every bit your default mail political program and supports Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Google Apps, Zimbra and the Prospect Web App. When you tell a program that you want to mail something, Affixa redirects your request to your Web-supported mail military service.

These tips wish arrive work better:

In Affixa's Options dialog box, detent the Options tab, and uncheck Load Affixa on Startup. You get into't need it running at all times.
When mise en scene up your account, click the Preferences tab, and in the 'Later on creating a muster message' pull-down menu, select Show in World Wide Web browser. That right smart, your new substance will come up automatically.
Although Affixa works with mailto golf links in your browser, IT's slower Here than the Firefox- and Chrome-supported solutions discussed last Thursday. I recommend that Firefox and Chromium-plate users install both. The browser-based solutions volition work with World Wide Web page mailto links, and Affixa testament puzzle out with everything other.

Read the original forum discussion.

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