Questions tagged [mailto]

Mailto is the URI scheme (also known as URL protocol) for email addresses and takes the form "mailto:[email protected]".

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mailto behaves abnormally in Safari browser

I have Safari 5.1.7 installed on my system.I have installed and set default email client Mozilla Thunderbird. I have an application which has link like <a href="mailto:[email protected]">...
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Cannot set Thunderbird as default app for "mailto"

I use Firefox and Thunderbird under Ubuntu for many years now. Since a couple of months, I cannot open a link to a mail on Firefox as, when I click on a link of a mail, it tries to open Chrome! I have ...
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Making EUDORA.EXE the mailto mail program

Up until Office365 (2016) my trusted Eudora worked fine on Windows 3.1 to 10 - but now OUTLOOK 2016 seems to write over all the connections. So I have lost the mailto function. (Yes, Eudora is very ...
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Force Firefox mailto with webmail to open new tab

I have successfully configured Firefox (43.0.4) to open mailto links in Gmail using Mozilla's instructions. mailto now triggers a new Gmail Compose however this uses the current tab and navigates ...
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How do I properly configure Firefox 7 on Windows 7 to use Outlook for mailto links?

I have Outlook open. In Firefox, I click a mailto: link. Instead of opening a new message, it opens up a new instance of Outlook, which doesn't work. My problem is basically exactly as described in ...
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How can I allow sites to set custom protocol handlers?

in firefox it's easy to handle but ms edge? There is a problem, that you can't automatically open mailto links INSIDE ms edge with gmail. I tried following: in the newest microsoft edge (also chromium ...
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How can I set Google Inbox to handle mailto: on El Capitan?

I expect Inbox to open when I click on a link like this: mailto:[email protected]
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