I use both gmail (through Chrome) and the Outlook desktop app, both on Windows 10.
Right now chrome is set to handle all mailto links, no matter in which program I click a mailto link.
This is not ideal, as any mailto link I click in outlook is opened in gmail. Therefore I would like to set Outlook to handle all mailto links I click in Outlook, and gmail to handle all mailto links I click in Chrome.
When I try to search for solutions, all I find is people describing how to change the mailto handler for Windows, not how to have different handlers depending on which program the click originated from.
If it is not possible using only Windows settings, solutions that involve potential third party software are also welcome.
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It seems like the mailto links we're embedding in our website fail to do anything in Chrome, though they work in Firefox.
hi this is a test
Do we need to do something special to enable mail links in Chrome?
Click on a mailto link does nothing. Nothing happens. It works in firefox and every other app on the computer.
How do I add an external program as the mail handler or make chrome use the system mail handler?
im try this in my chrome work
send email
im use windows im just configuration default app in setting windows
or type start button "default mail"
Microsoft outlook window is not actionable when user make an email from the IE9.
Steps:
Open the Internet explorer (>=9 version) and open any web page suppose www.stackoverflow.com
click on 'File' of the IE and select send-->page by email. Then it automatically open an email page in outlook
Observe that the page you've opened in IE9 gets pasted in the body of the outlook email and the subject as 'Emailing:*******.htm' is opened
click on the outlook window other than this email window and observe that it is not actionable.
how can we make it actionable(it should respond to the other user requirements)?
Can't do that - IE uses Simple MAPI do display the message, and Outlook's implementation of Simple MAPI displays the message modally.
I don't think there's any quick or easy way to do this, so I think you would have to look at Add-ins for this. I don't know of any myself though for this.
Outlook has behaved like this for years, and it is annoying - same thing happens when you click a mailto: link on a page. Can you get your user(s) to try Chrome instead and perhaps use an extension there for emailing pages?
Might be quicker/easier to deploy a workaround.
mailto link is not working in Google Chrome browser (Ver:18.0.1025.152 m)
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I used the above code in ff and chrome. It works fine in ff but not in chrome
And you can test this link also. I think it is problem with chrome settings. Anyone know how to change settings?
This is because chrome handles the mailto in different way. You can got to chrome://settings/handlers and make sure that which is the default handler. In your case it will be none. Now go to gmail.com. You should see something like this when you click on the button beside the bookmark button.
If you wish to open all email links through gmail then set use gmail. Now when you click on mailto button, chrome will automatically opens in gmail.
You can check which program is mapped to handle mailto: links by entering chrome://settings/handlers. It could well be that if the mailto: handler is somehow misconfigured, Chrome silently fails on mailto: links.
More information on handlers, including allowing websites to handle special links is available at http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1382847
For what it's worth, mailto: link in the W3Schools example works without problems with Chrome 19.0.1084.41 (Official Build 134854) beta-m and Outlook 2010 under Windows 7 Professional (64-bit).
It happens because your email default program doesn't working correctly.
This fixed mine .. Set your default email reader.
http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/VD7s
It is not because of the Chrome Settings...
Chrome is more specific for the Html and CSS, so your problem is probably that one of your 's is going over the link or image if you're trying to use an image as a mailto command.
Once you are on the page you are trying to make this work right click and choose "inspect element" and check if another element is going over your link...
Then in Css fix that and your mailto link will work...
Hope this helps
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I can't get chrome on windows 8 to open mailto links. They work fine in IE, and they work fine in chrome if the mailto is handled by a website (such as gmail), but I can't get it to work if Outlook is set to handle the uri.
Has anyone else faced this issue?
I'm not certain from the description if the problem you're having is the same that I had, but...
If clicking a mailto: link is bringing Chrome to the forefront but not actually starting a new message in Gmail, then you probably need to set Gmail as the mailto handler within Chrome.
Open Chrome's Settings.
Click "Show advanced settings".
Under "Privacy", click "Content settings".
Under "Handlers", click "Manage handlers".
For the "mailto" Type, set the combo box to "Gmail".
OK, OK, and you're done.
Click a mailto: link to try it out.
You should follow the standard bug investigation/reporting path:
look up a similar issue at http://crbug.com
if none is found, file a
new one at http://new.crbug.com
That said, http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62254 looks much like yours.
for some reason, the following code doesn't work. I don't understand where the issue is. I just want to open a client e-mail app to send an e-mail.
Send an email to a friend
Safari visits the page "mailto:enter-friend#address-here.com?subject=Pa0Website&body=This%20e-mail%20has%20been%20sent%20to%20inform%20you%20about%20%20website:%20"
Chrome doesn't do anything
I haven't tested on other browsers so far.
Thanks
You don't get to decide how the client deals with a mailto link. Each user/browser can do what it wants with those links. For instance, I have my chrome setup to open GMail when I click mailto links. Apparently you have yours setup to not do anything. Here's a random link running down how to do something like this on your system - http://bnee.com/2008/09/make-mailto-links-open-in-gmail-in-google-chrome-browser-windows-xp-and-vista/