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email handler??

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Postby mutantpoodle » September 5th, 2021, 8:16 am

i have started to receive a message saying

'your browser supports setting OUTLOOK.com as default email handler''

my email is a ''live.co.uk' address and i generally use Chrome as browser except for some bank transactions that dont work with Chrome

who is my current email handler and what if any difference would there be?

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Re: email handler??

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Postby swill453 » September 5th, 2021, 9:34 am

In this context, the email handler is the programme or operation that takes place when you click a "mailto:" hyperlink on a web page in the browser.

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Re: email handler??

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Postby mutantpoodle » September 6th, 2021, 7:58 am

thanks Scott
I am flattered that you consider I am tech aware

but I am not!

when I click 'send' it just goes..........i do not have a 'mailto' button

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Re: email handler??

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Postby Midsmartin » September 6th, 2021, 8:02 am

A mailto link is what you click when a web page says "click here to email us". The link then looks for your default email handler to allow you to send an email. It needs to know whether you want to open the outlook.com web page, Outlook itself, or Thunderbird, or whatever

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Re: email handler??

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Postby Infrasonic » September 6th, 2021, 3:23 pm

In Chrome browser these are called 'protocol handlers' - https://www.google.com/search?q=protoco ... 0AQ4dUDCA4

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Re: email handler??

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Postby pje16 » September 6th, 2021, 3:31 pm

Instructions on how to change it here
https://support.procore.com/faq/how-do- ... ilto-links

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Re: email handler??

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Postby UncleEbenezer » September 6th, 2021, 9:18 pm

Infrasonic wrote:In Chrome browser these are called 'protocol handlers'

Never mind chrome browser, that's standard terminology going back before Google - let alone chrome - ever existed.


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