![]() ![]() Then things will just work including the mailto button extension. Now, you can set Outlook or Thunderbird to connect to your Yahoo account via IMAP and then have Outlook or Thunderbird as the default mail client. It just doesn't work like that with Yahoo. Now, if you used Gmail instead, the site would ask you if you want it to handle mailto links, it'd go in the Protocol Handlers list, you'd set Opera as the default mail client on the system and everything would just work like you'd expect, including the mailto button extension. But, even if you have the extension for that, you still won't be able to use the "mailto button" extension as "mailto" still can't be associated with Yahoo. Now, if you want to be able to click on mailto links on a web page in Opera and have them open in Yahoo webmail, that's a different thing and you'll need an extension for that too. Now, as for setting Opera as the default mail client in this case, you don't and you don't set anything else as the default mail client on the system. As in, you don't do anything with a URL manually. The extension will take the address of the page and its title and convert it to an https yahoo webmail compose URL so that a yahoo compose page loads up with the title in the subject and the link of the page in the body. Then, when you want to share a web page's link in an email in Yahoo, you just right-click and choose "mail this page's URL". When you set up the extension, you set it to use Yahoo. Instead, you use the extension I mentioned. ![]() However, things are going to work like that at all with Yahoo as Yahoo doesn't support for HTML5's registerProtocolHandler emits. The second part is so Opera can handle mailto links on the system so that the website can handle mailto links on the system via Opera. The first part is so the website can handle mailto links in Opera. ![]() But, when a website asks you if you want it to handle mailto links and you say yes, 'mailto' will be added to the protocol handlers list AND Default Apps on your system will open up allowing you to set Opera as the default for the mailto protocol. The default mail client is changed in your system settings, not in Opera. Burnout426 Volunteer last edited said in Mailto Opera Yahoo issue: ![]()
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