computer configuration question thing (help me, neighbors!)

[ritaxis]

I use cruzio's webmail (and to a much lesser degree, a gmail account), not the Windows email client. It looks like xp pro will only let me configure a client resident on the computer's own drives as the default mail program. Since I do not wish to have windows or opera muck with my email, I haven't configured either of them and I don't intend to (I don't want my email archives on my computer at all. My webmail also keeps copies of sent mail).

This is my problem. Whenever I need to use somebody's mailto: link I get a popup Outlook Express mail form. It's of course nonfunctional. So to actually send that mail I have to copy the address and paste it into a webmail form. But if I could set the webmail as the default -- at least when I have it open in a browser window -- I could save that annoyance. Can I? How can I? I really don't want to use Outlook Express, or Opera, or Firefox, or Eudora,or . . . etc. I like how my webmail works. If it's not possible to set webmail as the default, I'd rather continue kludging as I do now than to install a client. But can I set my webmail as a default mail program -- seeing that it isn't resident on the computer?

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Sorry, can't be done by any method I know of.

If you right-click on the address link there should be a "copy email address" or some such option, which might make it slightly easier (you don't have to wait for Outlook Express to open and then select and copy the address there). Also opening Outlook Express strikes me as terribly dangerous; I won't let it exist on my computer, for fear of accidentally running it and getting infected with something.

[julesjones]

I do have a local client (Turnpike), but I also have Gmail running for one address, and if I want to copy-n-paste into Gmail I use the right click for the context menu that dd_b suggests.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I'm with David. Kill OE and right-click on the link.

[brooksmoses]

I'm pretty sure Outlook Express is essentially harmless (with regards to computer-infections, anyway) if you've never given it any information about where to find a mail server and what password to use to connect to it. That's really the only vector it gets things from, so without any idea where to connect, it can't get anything.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought, which is why I've never told it anything. It just keeps popping up when I get vague and click left instead of right, and I was hoping there was a shorter cut to sidestepping it.