mailprotocol 1.0 by nitro2k01

Have you ever needed to redirect all mailto: links to a webpage (ie you're using webmail instead of a traditional e-mail program.
Then mail protocol is what you need. It lets you do just that. When you click a mailto: link on a webpage(E g nitro2k01@gmail.com) it redirects you to a page of your choice (E g http://www.myserver.com/mailscript.php?mailto=nitro2k01@gmail.com)

Browser support

mailprotocol can be set to handle e-mail links in Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera. It can also target the same list of browsers.

Installing mailprotocol - preparing the HTML file

This is where you decide what happens when you click a mail link. Open mailprotocol.html in your favourite text editor. Find the following lines in the file:

/* mailprotocol 1.0 by nitro2k01
 * Please read readme.html
 */
//targetUrl = "http://www.foo.bar/mailscript.php";//?morefoo=morebar
//mailqs = "mailto";
//subjectqs = "subject";
/* ******************************************************
 * Do not edit below this line (unless you want to :) ) *
 ****************************************************** */

The three bolded lines above decide the behaviour of mailprotocol.

• targetUrl - What address do you want to redirect to? Change this line accordingly and remove the comment (//). The line can contain an address with or without a query string.
• mailqs - What is the name of the querystring you want to put the e-mail address in? Change this line accordingly and remove the comment (//).
• subjectqs - What is the name of the querystring you want to put the subject in? If the link you click features a subject, mailprotocol can forward this information in a query string. Change this line accordingly and remove the comment (//). If you don't need this functionality, you can remove this line or leave it commented.

Installing mailprotocol - integrating with the shell

Next step is to integrate mailprotovol with your system. This will make mailprotocol the default handler for the mailto: protocol. Run regedit.
Find this key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command

Change the value of the key as follows:

"C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "file://C:/My Documents/html/mailprotocol/mailprotocol.html?passedmailto=%l"

• The first part is the path to your broswer's executable. For Internet Explorer this is usually C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe on english systems and C:\Program\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe on swedish systems. Make sure you put inside quotation marks (""), especially if the path contains spaces.
• The next part is the path to the mailprotocol.html file. This path should be formatted as a file: protocol. This esentially means placing file:// before the path name and replacing all backslashes (\) with forward slashes(/)
  After that comes ?passedmailto=%l which is the magic word to pass the email and subject data to mailprotocol.
  Make sure to put the whole path to the html document in quotation marks (""). Now you're ready to try it.

Now all e-mail links in documents viewed with Internet Explorer will open with mailprotocol. If no other e-mail program has been set up, the same goes for Netscape/Mozilla. Opera needs you to change a setting though: Open preferences(Alt+P)/E-mail/Use default E-mail Client On Computer.

How about opening the file with another browser? No problem! Just replace the path to Internet Explorer with the path another browser (E g C:\Program Files\Firefox\firefox.exe)

About

mailprotocol was created 16 November 2004 by nitro2k01/DTD Software.