Hey, this is to anyone who knows ANYTHING about configuring webmail and websites...:clap: I have a hosting acct and have webmail setup...yet when I click on website's email contact link, I end up with Outlook Express opening. I can't for the life of me figure how to configure this... All I want is for anyone clicking on my email contact on my website to open their software with my 'To' info filled in and they can send their mail. And I get it at my webmail mailbox on hosting site. I've noticed that on some sites, you can click their email link, for instance joe@hisdomain.com and yahoo mail opens with 'To' filled in to his site! That's all I want.... here's an email I sent to my hosting acct and received these instructions back. ....................................................... Please add this code (substituting your own info) to your html page: Email: <a href="mailto:you@yourdomain.com">you@yourdomain.com</a> Clicking on this will open the visitor's email softare or webmail - it doesn't have anything to do with Outlook, your webmail, etc. ........................................................ And yet when I insert this code, my Outlook Express DOES open... How can I get around this and have Yahoo Mail open in my system? Does anyone out there have a solution to this? I'd sure appreciate a little help here...Thanks Nile
That's a bit misleading of the webhosting company! the mailto link will open the default mail software on the users computer (outlook express, windows live mail, thunderbird) however yahoo mail (would be http://mail.yahoo.com) and with some clever code tweaks with windows associations (on the users computer) you could make mailto: open a web browser and take you to http://mail.yahoo.com however i don't know anyone who has ever done it though hope that helps a little bit joe
