{"id":43035,"date":"2015-03-24T21:28:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=43035"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:03:09","slug":"open-mailto-links-in-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2015\/03\/open-mailto-links-in-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Open Mailto: Links in Gmail by Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you clicked <em>mailto:<\/em> links (email links) on websites and want them to open in Gmail. When I decided to install email links at bottom of these posts, I would be redirected to a popup for Outlook Express (or any other default email client in your case). But I wanted these links to open in Gmail in a new tab.<\/p>\n<h2>Open Email Links in Gmail<\/h2>\n<p><strong>What are mailto: links?<\/strong> They are links that contain a mailto: link instead of\u00a0 HTTP: &#8211; these links point to an email address instead of a web page. It contains an email address to which email is composed and typically might have the page URL, title and some suggested content within the URL &#8230; like a very long link.<\/p>\n<p>So here is what I did to enable this feature in Chrome. When you are on your Gmail.com page &#8211; click the 2 diamonds you see on the top right side in the url location bar. Click on that and you get a popup with the option to enable mail handlers for the page. This is what we see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/gmail-handlers.png\" alt=\"gmail handlers\" width=\"263\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/gmail-handlers.png 263w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/gmail-handlers-150x100.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By default, Chrome does not allow<em> mail.google.com<\/em> to open email links. I choose &#8216;Allow&#8217; and that&#8217;s it. Now when I click a <em>mailto:<\/em> link on websites, it opens Gmail compose screen prefilled with email address in a new tab!<\/p>\n<h3>Don&#8217;t see the diamond icons?<\/h3>\n<p>1. Check you are on the gmail page, otherwise you will not see the icons.<\/p>\n<p>2. Go to &#8211; Settings&gt; Show Advanced Settings &gt; Privacy &gt; Content Settings Button &gt; Handlers. Check that the options to &#8216;Allow sites to ask to be default handlers&#8217; is enabled. If it is not enabled, you will not see the double diamond icons on Gmail page. Enable this and try again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border alignnone wp-image-43039 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/mail-handlers.png\" alt=\"mail handlers\" width=\"450\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/mail-handlers.png 450w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/mail-handlers-150x41.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/mail-handlers-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Check that Protocol handlers have the <em>mailto<\/em> links set to open for site <em>mail.google.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border alignnone wp-image-43040 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/gmail-protocol.png\" alt=\"gmail protocol\" width=\"387\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/gmail-protocol.png 387w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/gmail-protocol-150x56.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/gmail-protocol-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If all that is set, then you should be seeing the mailto links open in Gmail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you clicked mailto: links (email links) on websites and want them to open in Gmail. 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