Lauching Lotus Notes with mailto:

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I have a mailto url in a web page. The target system contains both Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes. Microsoft Outlook is the default Mail Client. So when i click on mailto link it opens up Microsoft Outlook.

I want it to open Lotus Notes when i click on the link and i do NOT want change the default mail client settings in Internet Options as well. Please suggest a solution or work around to achive this.

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afaik, this is not possible. You have no control over the clients computer. The only thing you could do use some sort of plugin which facilitates your request. - Ikke
Thanks for you response lkke, please elaborate on the plugin thing you are referring to. - SKR

3 Answers

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You can use a notes:// style URL, which will work for users with recent versions of the Notes client installed. This URL format can be used to launch a database (or open a known document in a database) whose file path is known. Unfortunately, for creating an email document in the current user's mailbox, the NSF path will be different for each user. But there is a technique you can use, if you have a Notes server in your environment. You can have the link on your page actually link to a static Notes database, which has an "OnDatabaseOpen" event handler set up to look up the user's mailbox path, and then redirect the user there. It's a few steps - not as simple as a mailto: URL - but if you are desperate, it can be made to work.

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You can use this URL to open Notes and a new memo: Notes:///0000000000000E00/Memo?OpenForm

source: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/notes-urls

This however does not solve the problem of filling out the To address, Subject, etc.

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A mailto link is always going to use the default mail app. You may be able to use a lotus notes shortcut and pass the email address as arguments.