5th October 2001
Anti-Outlookers find that it can be a chore to register the desired email client to handle mailto: links within Internet Explorer. Should you find yourself in that particular predicament, a smidge of registry work can help you out. Start by navigating to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Clients \ Mail. Create a key for the e-mail application you're using. Next, you'll need to create three more subkeys cascaded underneath of each other as follows: Mail_Application_Name \ shell; Mail_Application_Name \ shell \ open; Mail_Application_Name \ shell \ open \ command. Under the 'command' subkey, create a new String (REG_SZ) value and name it (Default) - with the parentheses. The Data portion of the value should be set to the full path of the executable file for your e-mail application. In Internet Explorer click Tools | Internet Options | Programs tab and check the list of Email applications for your newly added entry. Select it as the default and give it a whirl! Note that some e-mail applications won't interpret the data sent over from IE; be aware that the process may behave rather strangely with your client.