Making Outlook my mail client

Making Outlook my mail client

Hi,

I selected Outlook as the opening program for the function "mailto" (tools/preferences/advanced/programs/mailto/edit/open with another application). It does open Outlook but not a new message to compose. I guess I should fill in some parameters in the appropriate box but which ones.
Could somebody help me ?
Thanks in advance

I also have this issue recently. I choose the default mailto program (which should be Outlook) but nothing happens.

It's the same at me since many versions before. I think opera-programmer don't want the use of onother e-mail-program.

Originally posted by martinlln:

I guess I should fill in some parameters in the appropriate box but which ones.
Could somebody help me ?

Try this:

-c IPM.Note /m "%1"

I don't use Outlook, so I don't know if that works, but that's what opera shows for parameters in "Open with default application" when Outlook is set to the default mail app in Windows.

Thanks, spadija, those parameters do make the new email message appear from mailto links, although it doesn't automatically fill in the email address in the To box.

There's a Microsoft article describing these parameters here -- A new mail message window does not open when you click a mailto link on a Web page in Outlook

Cheers

Thanks a lot to spadija and to avoidz for their contribution. I tried both methods.

With spadija's one, the new mail message appears without any mail address.

With avoidz's one, the new mail message appears with a question mark in the address zone.

Any further advice ?

Thanks in advance

If I find out any more info on this, I'll post it here.

OK, I was able to fix mine. Here's what I did:

- Go to Opera's Preferences... - Advanced - Programs - double-click on the mailto Protocol. You can delete those parameters mentioned above, then enable the option for 'Open with default application'.

- Next, open Internet Explorer's Internet Options. Go to Programs, and under Email: change the drop-down box to something other than "Microsoft Office Outlook' — mine gives me Opera, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail (I chose Outlook Express). Click Apply. Don't leave this dialog. Now go back and change the drop-down back to 'Microsoft Office Outlook'.

- Now go and click on an email link and it should work now with the recipient address, and also a subject if there's one.

The reason for this is in that Microsoft information link mentioned above it says to make changes to the URL:MailTo Protocol, which on my XP File Types list is missing. So googling that turned up that the action for mailto: links is corrupted or missing from the registry (source: Outlook not properly installed.

The solution I used came from here: Missing URL:MailTo Protocol

Let me know if this works for you as well.

Cheers.

Thanks to Avoidz for his answer.

I am truly sorry not to have come back to this topic earlier.

I tried your suggestion and it worked.

Thanks again

Cheers

The above didn't work for me, possibly mainly because in the Win7 version of the dialog for changing the default mail program, there were no choices but Outlook, but editing Opera's mail handling in Preferences/Advanced/Programs, choosing "Open with other application" and setting it to what you see below (adjust for your own path), works. The key difference is the very last thing: instead of %1, which as mentioned above equates to a blank address, use %t.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE -c IPM.Note /m %t

^ Thanks. It's good to keep this sort of info up to date. Cheers!