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mailto not working in Firefox -- outlook 2003

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mikeshen11
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Hi Forum.

I have a problem with a windows XP PC with outlook 2003 installed.

the firefox email link not working. I checked mailto: only showing yahoo and gmail.

We want to use outlook 2003 to send. If I use IE 8, email link will work.

I manually put the outlook.exe path in Use Other, still not working. It probably due to that I could not enter parameters with the outlook.exe

Please help.

Thanks a lot,

Michael

Hi Forum. I have a problem with a windows XP PC with outlook 2003 installed. the firefox email link not working. I checked mailto: only showing yahoo and gmail. We want to use outlook 2003 to send. If I use IE 8, email link will work. I manually put the outlook.exe path in Use Other, still not working. It probably due to that I could not enter parameters with the outlook.exe Please help. Thanks a lot, Michael

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FredMcD
FredMcD
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Select Use Other, then have Firefox search for Outlook.

mikeshen11
mikeshen11 Question owner
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Hi FredMcD

I selected Use other, nothing showing up.

All I see is Select Helper Application mailto undefined send this item to:

I can click browse to manually put in outlook.exe.

in my test, outlook will start and freeze. I guess parameters not being passed properly.

How do I enter a path like

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1"

or any other way to fix this issue?

Thanks a lot,

Michael

FredMcD
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I use the LiveMail program. No problem there. Have you thought about Switching to Thunderbird?

mikeshen11
mikeshen11 Question owner
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Hi there

No, we don't want switching to Thunderbird at this stage.

we are still trying to make the outlook 2003 as the default program for firefox.

Regards

Michael