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Great, been looking for this

Nice, but I love M2.

Good one! However, I like Opera Mail client. It's very fast and very easy to use, properly integrated into the browser. It's very fast because it does work very, very well with over 12 000 (twelve thousands ) of emails.

Great, thanks, but I am stuck in a situation where I have to alternate between web-based mail and M2.

Any chance this will be included in an upcoming version of Opera? It could be put under a Webmail category in Mail and Chat Accounts, IMO.

P.S.: I really, really like your Twelve setup. Thank you for taking the time to make it. Browsing is so much easier.

rijk, what if you have sevral mail accounts in Opera?
There is no way to handle this then...

So let me understand what you're saying: This isn't notification and retrieval application this only forwards us when clicking an e-mail link to web based mail. Nice but not good enough, even Outlook can retrieve mail from hotmail.

Copy+paste is from the field of DTP, surfing the net means seamlessly moving by clicking links. What you suggest is an improvisation.
Sorry :-(

I and other users have to use another browser because of Bi-di problems. As I expect Opera to solve the Bi-di problems I also expect it to fulfill the statement of all in one internet suite. If I have to use third-party tool it isn't all in one!

This is clearly not your fault and I'll refer this complaint to Opera developers.

This doesn't appear to work on the Mac version. Can anyone confirm?

I say this because I can't manually edit the 'Other Application' field. I can only change it by selecting a file from my computer.

thanks so much, found this in the forums.

To MikeHaugland...same problem here, and I got....close.

In Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/ is a file called "Opera 9 Preferences". Shut down Opera, pop this file open in a text editor, search for the lines:

[Trusted Protocols]
itpc=0,0,
mailto=0,0,
telnet=0,0,telnet
tn3270=0,0,telnet

Paste in opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c" to create:
mailto=0,0,opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"
(or whatever your webmail of choice is from the post above)

Close the file, open Opera, and the advanced/programs/mailto prefs should be updated, just as if you had typed it in. One minor detail: It still doesn't work! I get this error: Unable to start the external e-mail application
opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"

Anyway, here's hoping that perhaps there is a line in that file or some other file that I missed that will get this to work on Mac. Anybody? Please? Maybe?

Actually, what would be even better is if Opera could fix this on the Mac version. This isn't the only preferences field where this occurs. Edit Site Prefs / Display / My style sheet is another: it only lets you browse to a file, not type or paste in the field.

Rijk thanks

opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"

If you add '&tf=1', it opens just the email to send. Once sent, the window/tab is closed. Without tf=1, after sending email you have a new gmail tab at your inbox.

Is there no bcc field?

Is it possible to include the web address into gmail compose email window when clicking on "send link by mail" via right click?

Since the switch to yahoo beta, this command no longer works. At least it doesn't with opera for linux. I get a screen that says yahoo doesn't understand my browser request. I still use the old version of yahoo, because yahoo beta is too resource intesive for my computer. I have tried using the generic command too.

Hyper Cool!

This should be in a Sticky in the forum.

there is also: mailto-gmail.user.js

This script looks strangely familiar. That is actually a step in the opposite direction though. Why run a script when it can be handled internally?

Great!
But how can I use the mail button on my keyboard launch gmail?

Make the shorcut for the email button:

/path/to/opera/opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%b&cc=%c"

Seems like I couldn't make it work. Because I uninstalled my keyboard's software.

So I used TweakUI to change the path for the mail button to a shortcut I made. Works too.

If you put -newpage between the opera command and the url it will open in a new tab.

How can I properly encode a url to make it work in the body? I've tried no encoding, encodeURIComponent, and escape. Here are my attempts variety of ways:

no encoding
escape()
encodeURIComponent()

This is the raw format:

mailto:?subject=Check+out+this+RSS+Feed&body=http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/xml/rss/blog/

I've tried switching between '&' and '&'.

For me, the result is the body parameter in the url (&body=) is empty and therefore the body of the email is empty. I'm using gmail.

This is because of a couple of conflicting help files.

http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/472/
and
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/260/

The latter of which displays the right attributes. The body is actually %m. %b is BCC.

The correct setting for Gmail would be:

opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%m&cc=%c&tf=1"

One problem is that if the body contains escaped characters like %3D it will be unescaped to =, which will mess the body up sometimes anyway. For example this link will break the Gmail setting.
YouTube Sample

mailto:?subject=You%27ve%20received%20a%20YouTube%20Video%21&body=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DzWG5Dl1IyF4

Actually

opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=%t&su=%s&cc=%c&bcc=%b&body=%m"

You forgot to include '&bcc=%b' and I put body last since its most likely to be messed up. '%0A' is the convention for a newline in an email but it totally messes up in Opera.

Example:

all fields mailto
multiple recipientsThis works but the one above fails
broken subject

Code from examples above (in order):

mailto:a@mailinator.com,b@mailinator.com?cc=c@mailinator.com,d@mailinator.com&bcc=e@mailinator.com,f@mailinator.com&subject=test%20message&body=The%20message's%20first%20paragraph.%0A%0aSecond%20paragraph.%0A%0AThird%20Paragraph.

mailto:a@mailinator.com,b@mailinator.com

mailto:z@mailinator.com?subject=hi&body=The%20message's%20first%20paragraph.%0A%0aSecond%20paragraph.%0A%0AThird%20Paragraph.

I haven't filed any bugs because I haven't verified if this is an Opera issue or something to do with gmail. Anyone see similar issues with other mail providers?

Didn't notice anyone mentioning the Mac (or Win) Gmail Notifier that enables these various functions:

o View inbox
o Compose mail
o Enables MAILTO links
o Notifies on new mail

Works well in the Kestrel builds.

@kamalesh: broken link?

Yea, I was just noticing that this method is no longer functional in Opera. One or maybe the only problem is that Opera refuses to save the quotation marks around the parameters in the protocol edit dialog. So something with spaces in it opens a new tab for every space.

EDIT: When I initially opened this dialog, it seemed to improperly import my old settings.

It changed

opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=%t&su=%s&cc=%c&bcc=%b&body=%m"

to opera as the program and the parameter was

http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=%t&su=%s&cc=%c&bcc=%b&body=%m""

Notice 0 quotation marks before the param and 2 at the end. I tried fixing this with 2 at the beginning and they are stipped away while the 2 at the end remain. 1 quotation mark at the beginning and the end causes both of them to be stripped away.

Excellent! Very helpful!!!

I use hotmail. I followed the directions exactly, putting

http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?To=%t&Subject=%s&Body=%b&Cc=%c&mailto=1

in the specified field, trying that URL both with and without quote marks, but when I click on an e-mail link, both the "Test: mailto-link" here and a link to my own e-mail, I get the follwing error message. What's wrong?

Unable to start the external e-mail application
http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?To=Rufinoform1@hotmail.com&Subject=&Body=&Cc=&mailto=1

The system cannot find the file specified.

TOtally non-functional on Gmail these days, all I get is an Inbox tab.

It also doesn't work with Opera [Kestrel beta] and the official Gmail Notifier.

I found a way to make this work again, but I'm not sure if any personal info is revealed in the link I use, so I'd rather not post it until I can get a breakdown of what each value means, in particular the number appearing immediately after this: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&ik=

Any idea what "ik" is? As long as it's nothing personal, I'll post the link I've been using.

OK, on further inspection, it seems the "ik" value is generated per-user, so my link won't help anyone else, anyway. Good luck.

Try this to make it work after the latest GMail upgrade:

opera -newpage "http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&ui=1"

If you see my earlier post, the variable for body is actually %m.

%b = BCC
%c = CC
%m = Body (I assume m is for message!)
%s = Subject
%t = To

This mixup is because of a couple of conflicting help files.

http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/472/
and
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/260/

The latter of which displays the correct variables.

I think it would be wise to update your tutorial.

Rijk, Is there anyway to have the knowledge base article (http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/472/) corrected?

I just tried this using hotmail, but it doesn't work correctly. Opera opens hotmail in a new tab OK, but goes to the hotmail homepage rather than the 'compose message' page. Any thoughts? I'm using Opera 9.25, if it matters...

Hey Rijik, I need some help. I'm using Opera 9.5 and Gmail. The mailto: works, except the link opens to a new Opera window with the tabs I have open.

Other than that thanks.

You can use this method with Gmail's 2.0 interface if you install this userJS. Here's the code to use in the mailto dialog:

opera "http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&nocheckbrowser&view=cm&fs=1&to=%t&su=%s&body=%m&cc=%c&bcc=%b"