Send email link no longer works for me.
- streetwolf
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Send email link no longer works for me.
When a web page is being displayed and from the Menu Bar I click on "File/Email link..." it takes me to outlook.com, which is my default mail handler, and just sits there showing the animated email icon. It was working in a previous version of Fx but I can't recall which version suddenly broke it. It couldn't be that many versions ago. Another thing I notice there appears to be some other window that shows up before the one with the email icon. I assume it might be a window of some sort but it disappears so fast it looks like a 'flash'. Tried in safe mode with the same results.
Anyone else having this issue or knows how to fix it?
Anyone else having this issue or knows how to fix it?
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- streetwolf
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
Outlook.com is specified in Settings under Applications/Content Type/Mailto. The generated URL is https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplin ... iltouri=%s.
I fired up MS Edge for a test and entered the Mailto URL generated by Firefox while on CNN and successfully opened outlook.com with the new mail screen along with the link for the CNN page I was on in Firefox. This is how Fx worked until recently.
The CNN URL is https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplin ... 7C%2520CNN
I fired up MS Edge for a test and entered the Mailto URL generated by Firefox while on CNN and successfully opened outlook.com with the new mail screen along with the link for the CNN page I was on in Firefox. This is how Fx worked until recently.
The CNN URL is https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplin ... 7C%2520CNN
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- streetwolf
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
With a new profile I can open up a new email with the link to the page I invoked via email link. This is by pasting the url to CNN I gave above. Disabling all add-ons did nothing. Now to try and narrow it down to a pref.
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
Fixed my problem by deleting selective files in my profile and seeing if their recreation fixed the issue. My last deletion was a group of five files which fixed the problem. At this point I didn't try to find the one that fixed it. Leave well enough alone as they say. It also could have been a combination of these 5 files.
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- streetwolf
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
Darn things works for a while then it doesn't. Guess I'll live with it unless it's a known problem and gets fixed.
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
Do you have the mailto content type in files & applications?
i.e. Menu Bar > Tools > Settings > General > Files & Applications
I can add a mailto content type with a custom action by setting the following pref to true, then clicking a mailto link, then opening settings, then changing the action.
* network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto
Remember to reset the pref to false (default) after changing the action.
Test mailto
http://www.scottseverance.us/mailto.html
Change the program used to open email links
http://support.mozilla.org/kb/change-pr ... mail-links
Manage file types and download actions in Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/kb/change-fi ... -open-file
...
Try deleting or renaming the mimeTypes.rdf file if present and the handlers.json file in the profile folder. The handlers.json file will be recreated on startup.
i.e. Menu Bar > Tools > Settings > General > Files & Applications
I can add a mailto content type with a custom action by setting the following pref to true, then clicking a mailto link, then opening settings, then changing the action.
* network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto
Remember to reset the pref to false (default) after changing the action.
Test mailto
http://www.scottseverance.us/mailto.html
Change the program used to open email links
http://support.mozilla.org/kb/change-pr ... mail-links
Manage file types and download actions in Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/kb/change-fi ... -open-file
...
Try deleting or renaming the mimeTypes.rdf file if present and the handlers.json file in the profile folder. The handlers.json file will be recreated on startup.
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. AFAIK I have everything set correctly. Outlook.com is my default mailto. As mentioned when I send something on a web page to outlook.com vial email link all I see is the animated outlook.com email envelope. There is nothing else on the screen to indicate I am in outlook.com.
Have you tried outlook.com or another web email service? As mentioned things were working fine about a month ago. Outlook.com would open with a new mail screen and the link I chose would be in the body of the email ready to add a receiver and then send.
Have you tried outlook.com or another web email service? As mentioned things were working fine about a month ago. Outlook.com would open with a new mail screen and the link I chose would be in the body of the email ready to add a receiver and then send.
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- streetwolf
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
I installed the addon Outlook.com mailto – Get this Extension for Firefox (en-US) in order for outlook.com to appear as an application in mailto. The URL in the addon to outlook.com is not correct. I tried to change the "bad" url to the correct one but the addon shows up as permanently disabled in my list of addons. I guess you can't modify the XPI file like in the past. Is the URL stored somewhere else where I can successfully change it?
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
I got the mailto link working with Gmail.
* login to Gmail account
* run protocol handler code with mail.google.com url in Gmail tab
i.e. Menu Bar > Tools > Browser Tools > Web Developer Tools (ctrl+shift+i) > Console
* notice "Add 'mail.google.com' as an application for mailto links?" notification bar on top
* click "Add application" button on notification bar
* select "Use mail.google.com" action in settings
i.e. Menu Bar > Tools > Settings > General > Files & Applications
* test mailto link
Test mailto
http://www.scottseverance.us/mailto.html
Navigator registerProtocolHandler (title argument is deprecated)
http://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/A ... colHandler
How to set Gmail as default mailto in Chrome
http://developer.chrome.com/blog/gettin ... olhandler/
How to set Outlook as default mailto
http://support.mozilla.org/questions/12 ... er-1157748
Sorry, I don't use Outlook so I can't test the outlook.live.com url in the support.mozilla.org link answer.
I don't know how to change the url in the addon. Ask the addon developer.
I assume the registered mailto protocol handler url is in the handlers.json file in the profile folder. It's for me, but I don't use an addon.
Similar thread for Thunderbird: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14955195 (hack handlers.json file)
* login to Gmail account
* run protocol handler code with mail.google.com url in Gmail tab
i.e. Menu Bar > Tools > Browser Tools > Web Developer Tools (ctrl+shift+i) > Console
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navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto", "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s");
* click "Add application" button on notification bar
* select "Use mail.google.com" action in settings
i.e. Menu Bar > Tools > Settings > General > Files & Applications
* test mailto link
Test mailto
http://www.scottseverance.us/mailto.html
Navigator registerProtocolHandler (title argument is deprecated)
http://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/A ... colHandler
How to set Gmail as default mailto in Chrome
http://developer.chrome.com/blog/gettin ... olhandler/
How to set Outlook as default mailto
http://support.mozilla.org/questions/12 ... er-1157748
Sorry, I don't use Outlook so I can't test the outlook.live.com url in the support.mozilla.org link answer.
I don't know how to change the url in the addon. Ask the addon developer.
I assume the registered mailto protocol handler url is in the handlers.json file in the profile folder. It's for me, but I don't use an addon.
Similar thread for Thunderbird: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14955195 (hack handlers.json file)
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
The only thing that I've tried that almost works is this. The links you mentioned don't get me as far.
I added the following to Handlers.json https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/compose?mailtouri=%s. When I email a link I now get into a new email. However the link is not included in the message as it was when it was working. Perhaps the URL is not quite right. It's good enough to open a new mail screen but not good enough to plug in the link. Any thoughts on this? I tried looking for the proper way to send a link to outlook.com but didn't find anything. I thought Edge would help me out but so far I can't find a send link to email function like the one in Fx.
I added the following to Handlers.json https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/compose?mailtouri=%s. When I email a link I now get into a new email. However the link is not included in the message as it was when it was working. Perhaps the URL is not quite right. It's good enough to open a new mail screen but not good enough to plug in the link. Any thoughts on this? I tried looking for the proper way to send a link to outlook.com but didn't find anything. I thought Edge would help me out but so far I can't find a send link to email function like the one in Fx.
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
Try using the outlook.live.com url in the Firefox source code. The HandlerList.sys.mjs file uses the correct mail.google.com url.streetwolf wrote:Perhaps the URL is not quite right.
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https://outlook.live.com/default.aspx?rru=compose&to=%s
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... k.live.com
Try using the outlook.live.com url in the following thread.
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https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink/compose?mailtouri=%s
http://support.google.com/chrome/thread/195271847
...
Maybe the Outlook mailto feature is broken.
Mailto URIs for Outlook Web App not working (May 2023)
http://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/o ... -p/3821178
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
You can also check/compare the handlers.json file as that is where actions are stored.
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
morat.. None of the links you gave work. I wound up using MS Mail as my mailto program in Fx. I'm satisfied now that I can send email links in Fx once more. Thanks to all for your help.
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Re: Send email link no longer works for me.
Does this extension work?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -link-fix/
Make sure you are logged in to OWA.
https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink/compose?to=%s
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -link-fix/
Make sure you are logged in to OWA.
https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink/compose?to=%s