Runbox MailTo Client (for Windows)

NOTE: This program is only experimental. It has not been through extensive testing yet. I have tried it with Windows 98 using IE 5.5, Mozilla 1.4b and Opera 7.11 with no apparent problems. The various browsers do have some behavior differences that I have noted below.

The Runbox MailTo Client is a Win32 program that allows you to use the Runbox webmail as your default mail client.

After setting up the Runbox MailTo Client to be your default mail client, selecting a mailto link will launch a URL to a Runbox webmail compose page, passing all parameters of the link (e.g. mailto/To, CC, BCC, Suject and Body) to the appropriate fields of the compose page.

If you are not logged-in to Runbox, you will go to the login screen. You will have to login then either go back a page and refresh the browser or reclick the mailto link to get the compose screen. The ability to login and automatically go to the compose screen would have to be a functionality supported by Runbox webmail.

Setup

Put the RBMailTo.exe program in any directory/folder (e.g. C:\WINDOWS). From that folder, run the RBMailTo.exe
program by clicking on it. When RBMailTo.exe runs without any parameters it will come up in setup mode.

SETUP SCREEN

The Current Default Mail Client is the value of the string currently contained in the Windows Registry key "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command" which defines the default "mailto:" handler. You may want to save this information in case you need to manually restore the old "mailto:" information. In most cases you can restore the old handler using the browser option/preference settings.

Step 1 This is the complete path/name to the browser program to be used. If you leave it blank the default browser will be used. Setting a browser path/name can be useful if you have multiple browsers installed and don't want to use the default browser as the mailto client.

With IE 5.5, if you use the default browser, it will open the compose screen using the same window as the mailto link. If you specify the path to IE it will open in a new window but it if you were already logged-in, the new windows doesn't seem to recognize that and sends you to the login screen.

Mozilla 1.4b and Opera 7.11 always seem to open a new window but will recognize if you are logged in already or not.
Step 2
 This is the URL to the Runbox compose screen. It must include the "http://" protocol specification, followed by the complete Runbox domain (e.g. www.runbox.com, fast.runbox.com, runbox.no), followed by the path to the compose screen (/mail/compose), followed by the parameter separator (?) and optionally followed by a folder specification to designate the preferences (e.g. folder=Inbox). If no folder is specified, Runbox uses Inbox.

Examples:

http://runbox.no/mail/compose?
http://fast.runbox.com/mail/compose?
http://www.runbox.com/mail/compose?
http://www.runbox.com/mail/compose?folder=Inbox
http://www.runbox.com/mail/compose?folder=Outbox
Step 3
 Press "Make This My Default Mail Client Setting!" to save the new mailto settings.



Download

Click here to download RBMailTo.exe (this is a Win32 executable program)