MFPA:
> Hi
> On Sunday 7 June 2015 at 8:51:41 PM, in
> <mid:gt79naplejsrp1523d5sh3p7qkshfd6...@4ax.com>, Luca wrote:
>
> > I know, and I can tell you: there is no "browse" button
> > to select a program for mailto: handler, you can only
> > pick applications from the list, and Voyager is not in
> > the list of application to choose from.
>
> Playing with my search engine for a while got me:-
>
> <https://superuser.com/questions/536849/how-to-associate-the-mailto-protocol-with-a-custom-exe>.
>
> "The following saved as a .REG file, edited to specify my custom
> EXE and imported into the registry works for me in Windows 7:
It works! That's great, thank you. I've been searching for a long time for a
trick like that.
> > For .eml files, problem is not to associate the
> > extension to Voyager, but if I do that, Voyager opens a
> > "new message" editor window with the file as an
> > attachment, instead of opening the .eml file as a
> > message, showing its content.
>
> So Windows is picking the right application but the wrong action. Is
> there no way to edit the action?
With the registry, I think so. But there are a lot of keys related to .eml
extension, these are just some of them:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.eml]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.eml\OpenWithList]
"MRUList"="ab"
"b"="wlmail.exe"
"a"="voyager.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.eml\OpenWithProgids]
"Microsoft Internet Mail Message WLMail"=hex(0):
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.eml\UserChoice]
"Progid"="Applications\\voyager.exe"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.eml]
"Content Type"="message/rfc822"
"CachedFilterIID"="{0563DB41-F538-4B37-A92D-4659049B7766}"
"PersistentHandler"="{0563DB41-F538-4B37-A92D-4659049B7766}"
@="Microsoft Internet Mail Message WLMail"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.eml\PersistentHandler]
@="{0563DB41-F538-4B37-A92D-4659049B7766}"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.eml\shellex]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.eml\shellex\{8895b1c6-b41f-4c1c-a562-0d564250836f}]
@="{b9815375-5d7f-4ce2-9245-c9d4da436930}"
If I choose "Open with Windows Live Mail", WLM opens and shows the .eml file
like it's supposed to do, while "Open with Voyager" results in a new message
in Voyager with the .eml file as an attachment.
> And I would have thought you wanted to also associate .msg files,
> although these seem to be less common than a few years ago. I still
> encounter them occasionally.
Right, same thing as .eml. I didn't think about .msg because it's been a while
since I saw the last one, AFAIR.
--
Luca - e-mail: p.stevens at libero.it
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