add gmail as one of the dafault email (web) clients (linux)

Add gmail as one of the dafault email (web) clients, and yahoo etc. Now we have to edit the /usr/share/opera/defaults/webmailproviders.ini in linux, and we have to reedit it every time we install opera og upgrade opera. Not cool.

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Originally posted by serious:

we have to reedit it every time we upgrade opera

Does setting the file to read-only help your changes survive an upgrade?

Also, see <http://operawiki.info/WebMailto>.

And, see my Gmail Compose extension. After installed, press ctrl + shift + e, click the wrench next to the extension and goto preferences. There you can configure what type of compose page you get.

I also have an older user js script you can play with here.

+1, but why only Gmail? These should be added - Gmail, Windows Live Mail (Hotmail), My Opera Mail and Yahoo! Mail.

Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:

Windows Live Mail (Hotmail)

Their support is super buggy. And, in rich text mode, it treats the data as HTML instead of plain text. In Rich text mode, it treats as neither plain text or HTML. It's like text but with &tl; and > stripped. In rich text mode, newlines in the data aren't treated as breaks.

Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:

Yahoo! Mail

Their support is even worse. They have much the same problems as hotmail, but they also booger up addresses like:

"test" <test@example.com>

with HTML entities. And, they don't support newlines at all.

Their Opera browser detection often redirects Opera and drops the compose data.

Neither one supports the HTML5 %s syntax for the compose URI and they refuse to support it or fix their bugs. Even if they do fix a bug, they said they will only put out the fix in a *yearly* release cycle. In other words, they suck.

mail.ru doesn't support the %s either though, but Opera does make an exception. They've been fully cooperative with supporting Opera and implemented utf-8 support specifically for Opera.

Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:

My Opera Mail

Support hasn't been implemented yet, so no need to put it in Opera quite yet.

For Gmail, it has both the %s syntax and the other syntax. The %s syntax only has 1 tiny bug (that they reuse to fix). But, there is one downside to Gmail though. The compose URI is different for Google Apps domains and depends on your site, which means that to truly be useful for all Gmail users, you need to be able to edit the compose URI to fit your site.

The "Gmail Compose extension" seems to do the trick thanks burnout426!!

Does anyone know how to the Bad Request error with Gmail and mailto: links?

See <http://my.opera.com/operawiki/forums/topic.dml?id=1190592> also.

Originally posted by uVSthem:

Does anyone know how to the Bad Request error with Gmail and mailto: links?

Could you be more specific? Not sure what you're talking about.

Hi everyone,
Although not on Linux yet, and I appreciate the above suggestions and tipps very much, I have somehow the opposite problem (ibn W7-64 and XPpro), that is that Internet Options store "opera" as default mail client but it is not recognized from a mailto - link, at least not from my time&chaos contact&task manager. With Outlook ther is no problem, other clients I have not tried. T&C has some neat features amd its much more efficient and much more multiuser friendly than Outlook.

More abstrcatly speaking, I love Operas mail client, but need integrated repository of contacts, meetings, tasks, miniprojects, and important documents. The bigger brother of T&C, called Intellect has a built in mail client, but it sucks, especially with IMAP which is a must. Actially it sucks so much that I turned down T&C 8 years ago and moved to Outlook, but migrated back.

On the other hand I really have an affection to Opera and bith its mail cleint and newsfeeder. I use 3 different google accounts and only subscribe to the most important mail directories via IMAP, which I have a lot of. For digging in mails or moving them around I mostly go into gmail browser interface, although Opera mail does support that superbly as well.

I would however like Opera mail to import the addtional mail adresses from googlemail as well. As many users I send from Googles SMTP in the name of my diverse custom domains, which is a very smart feature.

Best, Michael

Originally posted by maremiru:

Options store "opera" as default mail client but it is not recognized from a mailto

First, you need to install a final version of Opera (not an Opera next build, snapshot or labs build) and make sure you set "make Opera the default browser" in the installer while using an option other than "standalone installation". That will make sure the correct registry settings are written.

If you already have 11.60, download the installer and install over the top of your current install (upgrade to the same version) to fix any of the registry settings.

In Opera, goto "ctrl + F12 -> advanced -> programs -> details", check "mailto" and ok out. Then, in "programs -> mailto -> edit", make sure it's set to "open with Opera".

Then, goto "default programs" and set Opera as the default mailto protocol handler. Restart windows after just in case.

Then, it should just work and clicking a mailto link should open in Opera, even if you click it in another program (unless the program sucks). However, using "send in email" options in programs or windows explorer won't work because Opera doesn't support MAPI.

+1 Hook opera with gmail so we can click a "mailto" link and use our favourite webmail!

Sorry for doubleposting...

Additionally, This would be great to be able to add custom mail providers, so I can use my own server running one of the most popular webmail service (Roundcube, zimbra... or any other AJAX-based service)

Originally posted by Tohris:

Additionally, This would be great to be able to add custom mail providers, so I can use my own server running one of the most popular webmail service (Roundcube, zimbra... or any other AJAX-based service)

You can do that now in Opera for those clients as long as they support what HTML5's registerProtocolHandler emits. But, if Roundcube (for example) still uses this format, that won't work and you'll have to get them to update to support HTML5 (or, you make a script (server-side or js in html page) the handler where it converts to what the webmail wants). For Squirrelmail though, I made this to make it support HTML5.

ahem, when I mean "be able to add custom mail providers", I mean an easy way of doing it, no looking for hidden config files, registry keys, cabalistic hex signs in the corner of a module...

of course, you can already do it but it won't last forever (on upgrade or new install), won't be saved with opera link and can't be easily explained to a 50+yr old lady...

Originally posted by Tohris:

ahem, when I mean "be able to add custom mail providers", I mean an easy way of doing it

When webmails add it to their pages, it will be easy. But, correct, it's not easy yet.

Originally posted by Tohris:

of course, you can already do it but it won't last forever (on upgrade

Not sure if it still works but you used to be able to modify webmailproviders.ini and set it to read only and your changes wouldn't get modified on upgrade.

Originally posted by Tohris:

or new install)

Indeed.

Originally posted by Tohris:

won't be saved with opera link

True. I don't that's something that will every by synced with Opera Link.

Originally posted by burnout426:

Originally posted by Tohris:

won't be saved with opera link

True. I don't that's something that will every by synced with Opera Link.

that's how "search engines preferences" are synced for me