I’ve been using Google’s GMail for a long time, and it’s become my primary mail client for both work and home. One of the things I got tired of was clicking a ‘mailto:’ link somewhere on a web page and having Outlook open up. I finally got annoyed enough to do some searching, and found this nifty little program called gAttach!.

It’s a small application that installs itself as the system mail handler. When a ‘mailto:’ link is clicked, it launches, logs into GMail (or optionally assumes that you already are), and creates an entry in your Drafts folder with the email address, and, if present in the ‘mailto:’ link, the subject.

It’s not quite *exactly* what I want, as I would prefer that focus then be switched to the browser and GMail tab, with the cursor positioned so I can start typing in the body. This may not be possible, I don’t know.

But in any case, it’s far better than launching an un-configured version of Microsoft Abortion. Er, I mean, Outlook.

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