Make mailto: links go to GMail?
Alan Hoyle
Is there any way to make generic "mailto:" links in arbitrary web
pages bring up a webmail compose screen instead of trying to load an
external program or M2? I'd love to click them and have them bring up
a prepopulated GMail compose window. I checked UserJS.org, and didn't
see anything.
Here's the basic idea implemented in a Firefox extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/206/
-alan
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Toshiyuki Saito
>
> Is there any way to make generic "mailto:" links in arbitrary web
> pages bring up a webmail compose screen instead of trying to load an
> external program or M2? I'd love to click them and have them bring up
> a prepopulated GMail compose window. I checked UserJS.org, and didn't
> see anything.
>
> Here's the basic idea implemented in a Firefox extension:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/206/
It's written in Korean, which I can't read at all, but might be helpful
for you as well.
http://my.opera.com/korean/forums/topic.dml?id=106443&t=1150701063&page=1#comment1247118
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Using Opera's developing mail/news client
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:48:10 +0900, Alan Hoyle <al...@unc.edu> wrote:
>> Is there any way to make generic "mailto:" links in arbitrary web
>> pages bring up a webmail compose screen instead of trying to load an
>> external program or M2? I'd love to click them and have them bring up
>> a prepopulated GMail compose window. I checked UserJS.org, and didn't
>> see anything.
>>
>> Here's the basic idea implemented in a Firefox extension:
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/206/
>
> It's written in Korean, which I can't read at all, but might be helpful
> for you as well.
> http://my.opera.com/korean/forums/topic.dml?id=106443&t=1150701063&page=1#comment1247118
Right. The problem is finding the documentation for the various webmail
services - copying the strings used by the Firefox extensions speeds this
up quite a lot :)
Together with Opera's documentation on the parameters:
http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=472
... this leads to the following command lines you can use to handle the
'mailto' protocol (where 'opera' starts the Opera browser):
GMail:
opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"
Hotmail:
opera
"http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?To=%t&Subject=%s&Body=%b&Cc=%c&mailto=1"
Yahoo Mail:
opera "http://compose.mail.yahoo.com/?To=%t&Subject=%s&Body=%&Cc=%c"
Netscape Mail:
opera
"http://webmail.netscape.com/compose.adp?mailto=%t&mailcc=%c&mailsubject=%s&mailbody=%b"
Mail.com:
opera
"http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/mail/Outblaze.mail?composeto=%t&subject=%s&body=%b&cc=%c&compose=1"
Opera Web Mail:
opera
"http://mymail.operamail.com/scripts/mail/Outblaze.mail?compose=1&did=1&a=1&to=%t&subject=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"
Horde:
opera
"http://YOUR_HordeURL_HERE.com/horde/imp/compose.php?popup=0&to=%t&cc=%c&msg=%b&subject=%s"
Squirrelmail:
opera
"http://YOUR_SquirrelURL_HERE.com/src/compose.php?send_to=%t&subject=%s&body=%b&send_to_cc=%c"
Generic
opera
"http://YOUR_URL_HERE/?To_Field=%t&Subject_Field=%s&Body_Field=%b&Cc_FLield=%c"
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Rijk van Geijtenbeek
Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA
Tweak: http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/
Brian D Clary
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:50:40 +0200, Toshiyuki Saito wrote:
>> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:48:10 +0900, Alan Hoyle <al...@unc.edu> wrote:
>
>>> Is there any way to make generic "mailto:" links in arbitrary web
>>> pages bring up a webmail compose screen instead of trying to load an
>>> external program or M2? I'd love to click them and have them bring up
>>> a prepopulated GMail compose window. I checked UserJS.org, and didn't
>>> see anything.
>>>
>>> Here's the basic idea implemented in a Firefox extension:
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/206/
>>
>> It's written in Korean, which I can't read at all, but might be helpful
>> for you as well.
>> http://my.opera.com/korean/forums/topic.dml?id=106443&t=1150701063&page=1#comment1247118
>
> Right. The problem is finding the documentation for the various webmail
> services - copying the strings used by the Firefox extensions speeds this
> up quite a lot :)
>
> Together with Opera's documentation on the parameters:
> http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=472
> ... this leads to the following command lines you can use to handle the
> 'mailto' protocol (where 'opera' starts the Opera browser):
>
> GMail:
> opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"
This works very nicely when encountering mailto: links. However, I notice that when I use the "send link by email" context menu option, the link is not included in the body of the message. Is this a bug?
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Brian
Opera 9.01 build 8552
Windows XP Pro
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:17:30 -0400, Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:
..
>> GMail:
>> opera
>> "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"
>
> This works very nicely when encountering mailto: links. However, I
> notice that when I use the "send link by email" context menu option, the
> link is not included in the body of the message. Is this a bug?
I think it is a more general shortcoming this Opera feature. 'Send link by
e-mail' doesn't work when using normal external mail clients as well (at
least not in a quick test here).
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Rijk
Opera Software ASA
QA etc
Brian D Clary
What does shortcoming mean? That this is possible but hasn't been implemented yet? That it's not possible?
Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<bdc...@dev.null>:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:09:51 -0400, Rijk van Geijtenbeek
> <ri...@opera.removethiz.com> wrote:
>
>> Op Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:14:26 +0200 schreef Brian D Clary:
>>> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:17:30 -0400, Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:
>> ..
>>>> GMail:
>>>> opera
>>>> "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"
>>>
>>> This works very nicely when encountering mailto: links. However, I
>>> notice that when I use the "send link by email" context menu option,
>>> the link is not included in the body of the message. Is this a bug?
>>
>> I think it is a more general shortcoming this Opera feature. 'Send link
>> by e-mail' doesn't work when using normal external mail clients as well
>> (at
>> least not in a quick test here).
>
> What does shortcoming mean?
http://www.answers.com/topic/shortcoming
> That this is possible but hasn't been implemented yet? That it's not
> possible?
"'Send link by e-mail' doesn't work when using normal external mail
clients as well (at least not in a quick test here)."
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Brian D Clary
Maybe I should've rephrased my post, because from your definition, it's hard to define exactly the difference between a bug and a "shortcoming." Basically, what I'm wondering is, should this be filed as a bug report? If not, is it because it is already known or that there are no plans to fix it?