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[kensington43]

Any way to write something to find out if local Mailto has been disabled?

Currently if the local OS has been disabled from sending mail for Outlook I get an error message from the OS saying "could not perform this command" after clicking on the mailto link.
I want to put my own message out there saying "This Mail tag has been disabled".

Please advise:

function checker(myCheck){
//not sure how to check if the mailto tag worked here
alert("This Mail tag has been disabled");
}


<a href="mailto:jones@here.com" onClick="return checker(this)">Link</a>

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I dont think you will be able to do this for all browsers using JavaScript... *possibly* IE only, but certainly not for all major browsers.

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[kensington43]

Thanks,

Any idea on how to check if the mailto tag program is working or connected for IE browser?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

At a guess, you'd need to use some sort of Active component to check the registry entry for the mailto protocol to see if a handler / program has been set. This is located (AFAIK) under:

HKCR\mailto\shell\open\command\(Default)

Hope this helps,
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[kensington43]

Thank you for the information.