Loading e-mail programs through your website

[Guest_imported]

I'm working on a project for my department, and they're asking; if someone clicks on a link to an e-mail (joedoe@site.com), could it run other programs instead of hotmail? We use Lotus Notes 4.6 as our e-mail provider. So, suppose someone wants to send an email to me when theyre at our site, and they click on my name, could it load Lotus Notes 4.6 with my address ready to go? I know with hotmail and aol you can do this, but we want to use Lotus Notes 4.6. Please help.

joel

 

[aperfectcircle]

You should be able to do this by setting the default e-mail program in your browser. In IE 5.5 go to Tools, Internet Options, Programs, and choose an option from the E-mail drop-down box.
If you are asking how to get Lotus as an option in this drop-down box, I have no idea...

 

[WebGodiva]

The problem would be the end-users default mail application. When ever you click on an email link it will open the users default mail application to send the mail.

Hope this helped.

 

[scotth4v]

In other words... You can't control which mail app gets launched. It will launch whatever the browser sees as the default Mail app for their machine.

-Scott

 

[daLearner]

I know what you are talknig about. If someone is reading hotmail and clicks on a mailto link, hotmail will open a new message for him and it is the same with netaddress.com but other than that it should open the default browser of the end user. I doubt you can do much about this.

daLearner

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[Guderyon]

The only way I can think to get around this, is to create an e-mail submittal page where the user can input their e-mail address in a text box, then they can type in the contents box whatever they wish. Once they press submit, you should be able to control the format of these text boxes to any e-mail application you want. I'm not 100% sure of this, but it may be worth a try.

 

[scotth4v]

Well, you could always build a form and handle all of the mail functionality within your website and not spawn the mail client at all. You can use CDONTS if you're using ASP on IIS or "Jmail" or a CGI mail handler for Unix.

-Scott