I have found that the following (modified from article Q154359
[support.microsoft.com]) will work for IE 4,4.01 and 5. When you click on a
mailto link, this will open IE in a new window at the login for Imail. I
have tried to add the login and password to it, but have not been successful
yet.
1. In My Computer, click Options (or Folder Options) on the View menu, and
then click File Types.
2. Click the URL:MailToProtocol line to select it, click Edit, click Open in
the Actions box, and then click Edit. Click the "Application used to perform
action" box and press DELETE to delete the data in the box.
3. Type the following single line for the "Application used to perform
action" box for the Open command:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iexplore.exe"
http://YourImailDomain:8383/login.cgi
NOTE: Type the quotation marks in the box.
4. To save the changes, click OK until you return to My Computer.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:41 PM
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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IE and web templates question.
> What I think the original poster wanted to do, was set things up so
> that you could click on *ANY* link in IE, and have it immediately
> redirect to a webmail site for sending messages.
> In answer to the original poster's question, no, you can't do this
> (at least I can't think of any method of doing so).
FYI, you *can* do this with Hotmail (probably because Microsoft owns it).
In IE5, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs -> E-mail, and you can
choose "Hotmail". I don't know if it is possible to put other web sites
there (I checked it out a while back, but couldn't find any info --
Microsoft usually has a way to do it, if you look hard enough though).
> What I fail to understand, is why you would want to do such a thing.
> *ANYTHING* is better than web-based email, even Netscape mail and
> Outlook Express.
My boss was interested in doing that. I think it was more of a "look and
feel" type thing, where if you use the browser for E-mail, you might as well
be able to click on the mail links and use the browser for E-mail. After
all, if someone is using web E-mail, they must have some reason for it, even
if there are better options.
-Scott
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