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Document Subject: Lotus Notes and mailto
Hint Short Cut: Add this to your code & documentation to help you find this page.
http://#mailto or http://a555f9/nn.nsf/ByAlias/mailto

A mailto link a useful feature to add to a website in intranet or internet. Setting up an automatic link to a notes page is shown and making mailto links work with lotus notes is also discussed.




Here are examples of mailto links you can use:

 

mailto:nobody@notesinjas.com

mailto:nobody@notesninjas.com,zero@notesninjas.com

mailto:nobody@notesinjas.com,zero@notesninjas.com?subject=To%20Nobody%20and%20zero

mailto:nobody@notesninjas.com,zero@notesninjas.com?cc=cc@notesninjas.com?subject=To%20Nobody%20and%20zero,cc

mailto:nobody@notesninjas.co?bcc=bcc@notesninjas.com?subject=To%20Nobody%20and%20bcc

mailto:nobody@notesninjas.co?bcc=bcc@notesninjas.com?subject=useful...?body=check%20this%20%0Ahttp://www.notesninjas.com

 

The mailto link cannot be more than 256 characters, so don't overstretch.

If you wrap the line in an <a href="mailto..." you don't need to specify %20 for spaces.

 

You don't have to put in an exact email address, you can put in  a group name if you wish like:

mailto:friends?subject=cool

 

Another bonus of having Lotus Notes set as your default mail client is you can right click on files in windows explorer and send them to a mail recipient, this creates a memo with the file attached.

This functionality works even if Lotus Notes is not yet open. Notes is opened and the password is requested. If you have single sign on enabled for the machine and Lotus Notes, you don't need to enter your password.

Domino Web Access (ie the web mail client for lotus notes) for version 6.5 can also be set up to be the default mail client, go to preferences->other in DWA to find the "Make default client" button.

 

To change your default mail client, in ie go to Tools->Internet Options->Programs and change Email.

Doing it in Firefox is trickier, see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_mail_client#Setting_Firefox.27s_email_client

 

There is an executable here that adds Lotus Notes to the default email client in windows:

http://www.bluestream.org/Domino/LotusMail.htm   Use this if Lotus Notes isn't an option already in ie.