Windows XP default email Client

dec2000

Since receiving a gmail invite I have really got into Gmail and it has become my primary email address. However i dont see the point of using it with Outlook and to be honest i never really used Outlook.

Is it possible to set Gmail as my default email client in Windows XP - i.e. on the start menu where default browser and email are can i get it to link to Gmail instead of Outlook as set now. I have noticed you can set Hotmail as default so I'm presuming all web based email *should* be able to aswell. Tried Google searching but camed only across a program to allow different users use different programs.

Thanks in advance

daveirl

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Originally posted by dec2000
Since receiving a gmail invite I have really got into Gmail and it has become my primary email address. However i dont see the point of using it with Outlook and to be honest i never really used Outlook.

Is it possible to set Gmail as my default email client in Windows XP - i.e. on the start menu where default browser and email are can i get it to link to Gmail instead of Outlook as set now. I have noticed you can set Hotmail as default so I'm presuming all web based email *should* be able to aswell. Tried Google searching but camed only across a program to allow different users use different programs.

Thanks in advance

Goto Control Panel > Internet Options > Programs

Gmail should be on the drop down email menu. select and press ok

daveirl

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seamus

Does Gmail support POP? I hate using webmail where at all possible....

daveirl

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Originally posted by daveirl
What?!!

No it's not, well not by default anyway. You definitely ran something 3rd party to get that option.

sorry daveirl i am actually using incredimail not gmail and that is haw i got it to work at least i think so anyway. perhaps there is an option in the gmail dateabase which will allow you to set gmail as default

hostyle

Originally posted by tipp_Gunner
sorry daveirl i am actually using incredimail not gmail and that is haw i got it to work at least i think so anyway. perhaps there is an option in the gmail dateabase which will allow you to set gmail as default

Incredimail is an application you install. gmail is not. Try to do some basic research before making totally unhelpful and confusing suggestions.

Originally posted by hostyle
Incredimail is an application you install. gmail is not. Try to do some basic research before making totally unhelpful and confusing suggestions.

Look it here you!!!

the guy asked for help and i helped him best as i could. If i jumped the gun ill hold my hand to it up and apologise.

i thought gmail was an email application kike incredimail. next time i make such an error dial 999 since your making such a big deal out of it this time around.

hostyle

Originally posted by tipp_Gunner
Look it here you!!!

the guy asked for help and i helped him best as i could. If i jumped the gun ill hold my hand to it up and apologise.

i thought gmail was an email application kike incredimail. next time i make such an error dial 999 since your making such a big deal out of it this time around.

If I offended you, I apologise - that was not my intention. My comment was not meant to be directed at you personally but at the many posters who make incorrect assumptions before proffering incorrect advice. I posted too quickly to make such a point clear. Please continue to help others out when you can. I am thankful that you made the effort to admit you were wrong - many posters don't.

dec2000

Thanks for the link daveirl - going to read through them now! It was to make it default in windows on start bar - but the mailto thing I have seen b4 but i might try it now!

Fenster

Very nice little Firefox extension there. Thanks for the link!

Originally posted by hostyle
If I offended you, I apologise - that was not my intention.

Apology accepted and thanks

daveirl

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hostyle

Originally posted by daveirl
What?? This isn't how arguments on the Interweb are meant to end...

Please accept my apologies on that front also

ColmOT [MSFT]

Hostyle, I think this change to your signature would be cooler...

# Co-Worker #1: "A boolean variable has 10 possible values: true or false."
# Co-Worker #2: "Umm...true?"

hostyle

ColmOT [MSFT] wrote:

Hostyle, I think this change to your signature would be cooler...

# Co-Worker #1: "A boolean variable has 10 possible values: true or false."
# Co-Worker #2: "Umm...true?"

Ehm. I don't get it ...

Dun

10 is the binary equivalent of the number 2.

hostyle

Dun wrote:

10 is the binary equivalent of the number 2.

I know. And how is that funny? In my sig, the first line is a statement not a question.