Setting up webmail in firefox

From FreekiWiki
Revision as of 17:05, 10 December 2008 by Evilgold (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Getting mail links working correctly with web based email in FireFox 3.

2 preset options exist: Gmail and Yahoo. To choose one of these open firefox and go to Edit>Preferences>Applications search for mailto use the drop down menu to select gmail or yahoo in place of evolution.


Usegmail.png

For other mail services: It is possible to use other web mail services not offically supported by firefox as well. To do so you'll need to navigate to your webmail and log in. Once at either your inbox you'll need to enter the fallowing javascript command into firefox's URL window and you should be given an option to add your webmail to the list in firefox. 

 http://javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","http://WEBMAIL.URL/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","Service Name")

Replace webmail.url with the Url to your webmail's inbox or compose page. Replace Service Name, with the name of your mail provider.

For example to use AOL's AIM Mail 

 http://javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","http://webmail.aol.com/39997/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","AIMMail")
Retrieved from "http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php?title=Setting_up_webmail_in_firefox&oldid=36432"