mailto: no more
It’s time to stop using mailto: links.
I mean c’mon. You think I still read my email in a local client? That’s just so twentieth century.
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March 2009 M T W T F S S « Feb Apr » 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 - Feeds and other:
I’ve started using Affixa, http://www.affixa.com/. It allows your web based mail to be used for mailto: links. I have it set for my Gmail and a a Google Accounts mail address too. Click on a link, it pops up and you choose which account you want to send your mail through. Fantastic little program.
Oh, cool. I actually had a vague memory that Gmail used to parse mailto: links and hack them to do what it wanted, but it didn’t do it last night, so either that feature’s been taken out or my memory is faulty!