When I read this I thought "Hot diggety" or words to that effect and
followed the carefully detailed directions, rebooting just to make sure.
When I tried it on a 'mailto@somewhere' on a web site, Messenger came up
instead of The Bat. <grrr> It certainly would have been 'nifty', if it had
worked.
However, spurred on by the suggestion that a settings change in the e-mail
client itself might work, I had another look through Calypso, my main
e-mail application and sure enough, buried in an overlooked corner was a
setting to make it the default e-mail programme. If you're a Netscape user,
a tray monitor is employed but now those onsite 'mailto@somewhere' links
bring up Calypso with its many accounts.
Now I'm tempted to add another account just to use for the above
situations. Perhaps not, though. It could be a straight shot to a very
cranky old age. (Too many e-mails beginning with "Now see here, sonny, this
website is a very poor design . . .") ;>)
Thanks for your help, Alan. It was a nudge in the right direction for me.
Hope JM gets his Bat "automated".
A - 'Calypso-ing' in Canada
On 3/21/01 at 5:37 PM Alan S. Harrell wrote:
>Okay, I'll give it a whirl:
>
>Open The Bat, or as we say in the States, "Batter up! <g>:
>
>In the left folder pane, highlight the account to which you wish to
>assign as the mailto default. If you only have one account there,
>then this probably won't be necessary.
>
>Now from the top menu, select:
>
>Account | Properties
>
>In the left Properties pane select "General".
>
>See the bottom of the General properties for a check box for "This
>account is the default for mailto: URLs" Check that box.
>
>You can then Okay yourself out of there.
>
>You might need to do a reboot to set this into your Registry,
>otherwise just closing The Bat might suffice.
>
>
>Alan
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