Como mudar seu cliente do mailto do defeito a GMail ou a Yahoo

Afixado agosto em 29, 2007 em 3:52 pm

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  12. Como mudar seu cliente do mailto do defeito a GMail ou a Yahoo

Não seria agradável se Microsoft não tentasse sempre a tentativa o fazer usar seu software para tudo que você quer fazer em Windows? Uma das coisas que me irrita é mais o fato que o defeito mailto os clientes podem somente ser Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird, etc., bàsicamente os programas que têm que ser instalados em seu computador a fim trabalhar.

Isso é irritante porque sempre desde Google e Yahoo vieram longitudinalmente, lotes dos povos gosta de verificar seu correio com a correia fotorreceptora e não a quer furou em apenas um computador! Assim se você estalar sobre uma daquelas ligações do email em um Web page pelo acidente em vez de o copí e de colar, você terá que esperar alguns minutos quando carga do Outlook Express ou do Outlook ascendente e desperdiça seu tempo.

Thankfully, há uma maneira instalar um certificado em FireFox por meio de que se você estalar sobre uma ligação do mailto, o cliente do defeito pode ser ajustado a GMail ou a Yahoo! Sadly, isto trabalhará somente com FireFox e não Internet Explorer, assim que se você estiver lendo este do IE, comuta sobre!

Para que isto para trabalhar, você tem que instalar Add-on de GreaseMonkey FireFox and then install the script. Don’t worry if this sounds a little technical, just click the links and click install! You don’t have to do anything very technical to get it to work. Once you’ve installed the GreaseMonkey add-on, click here to download the Mailto 2 Webmail script. Again, this is very simple, just click the Install this script button at the top right.

The only semi-technical thing you have to do with the script is if you’re using Yahoo Mail. You need to click on Tools, Greasemonkey and Manage User Scripts.

Next, click on the Mailto script and click the Edit button. Browse to Notepad.exe or WordPad.exe under C:\Windows to use as your text editor. Under the “EDIT THIS ONLY” section, change the whichService value to Yahoo instead of Gmail and change yahooServer to the server name when you are checking your mail at Yahoo.com.

It’s usually right before the .mail.yahoo part and it looks something like us.fXXX.

Save the file and you’re done! Of course for GMail users, you don’t have to do anything at all, it just works! Remember though that you need to restart FireFox before the changes take effect. Now click on a mailto link and you’ll be happy to see a new message automatically composed in your favorite web mail program! Unfortunately, Hotmail does not support this and therefore does not work with this plug-in.

There are tons more Greasemonkey scripts out there that do all sorts of things, so make sure to read my post on 25 Greasemonkey scripts you should take a look at. Enjoy!

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7 Responses to “How to change your default mailto client to GMail or Yahoo”

  1. Annie said on : August 31st, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    I was so excited to see this post on how to change my default mail to Yahoo. Unfortunately it didn’t work :(


  2. Annie said on : August 31st, 2007 at 7:01 pm

    Sorry, I was doing it wrong. It works now and I can’t thank you enough for creating this!!


  3. Dick Mariner said on : September 6th, 2007 at 7:19 am

    “How to change your default mailto client to GMail”
    Another quick way : go to Google Talk > settings > general > tick box for “Open Gmail when I click on email links”. Click OK…..another easy job done..!!


  4. Michelle said on : November 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pm

    AWESOME!!!! I have spent the better part of my day trying to figure this out/search the web and find the answer. It is one of those things that has irritated me for some time and I finally decided to fix it. I am running Vista and most info I could find wouldn’t work with this OS. Your suggestion is the only thing that worked. THANK YOU!!


  5. SusanZ said on : January 19th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    Wow! like Michelle I was sooo happy to finally find an answer to this problem! I use yahoo mail and was almost ready to celebrate having successfully fixed it when I got to the part about changing the yahooServer. What do I do if I have 2 yahoo email addresses: one’s the address I have with my Yahoo hosted website and one’s my personal yahoo address (plus my husband has an address on the same computer)?
    I hope this isn’t too stupid a question?


  6. jma said on : February 7th, 2008 at 1:59 am

    it works great good job i was looking for this fix for a long time


  7. stelvio said on : February 13th, 2008 at 6:57 am

    Thanks so much for your suggestion, the author of the script did an excellent job! Now my gmail apps mail account opens like a charm in firefox when clicking ‘mailto’ links…


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