Invoke Lotus Notes from HTML 2

[NaoTriste]

Is it possible to invoke Lotus Notes e-mail from HTML or does it always assume and will only work with Outlook?
i.e href="mailto:e-mail address"

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If you have Notes as your registered mail client, then using "mailto:" will invoke Notes without problem.

You need to be aware, however, that there are known bugs with Notes that restrict the length of data that can be passed with the mailto: command.

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[NaoTriste]

Another question for BillyRayPreachersSon.
..sorry to be such an ignoramus but how do you register Lotus Notes as the mail client and would this then mean that all my customers would have to do that in their machine ?!

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I don't know for sure if this is right... So try it and find out...

In Notes, click "File", "Preferences", "User Preferences", "Mail and News" and check that "Mail Program" is set to "Lotus Notes".

If your customers use Notes as their default mail client, then this has probably already been done... If they use some other program, then they would have to do this manually.

And just so you know, if they don't have Notes installed at all, they cannot use Notes as the default mail client unless they install it ;o)

Dan

 

[ggriffit]

You can also check this in IE :

Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs

And the base handler for MAILTO is in the Registry which can be accessed via Explorer :

Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types

It is called a lot of different things depending on your version of Windows, in XP its :

URL:MailTo Protocol

 

[NaoTriste]

Thanks to both BillyRayPreachersSon and ggriffit ...and I thought my pseudonym was bad !

Just for the record, the Lotus Notes setting was already defaulted so that was not enough in itself. I managed, through the Services tab in Outlook to add a Lotus Notes directory and default the address book to my Lotus notes but try as I might I couldn't map a message sent through Otlook to Lotus Notes, aaarghhhhhhh !
However setting the E-mail in
Web Explorer -> Tools -> Internet options ->Programs to Lotus Notes proved to be the solution, as then when I use mail: etc in HTML it sets a message in Lotus Notes even bringing it up if not yet started.
Simple but very effective.

Thanks to both

Cat